Re: security on the web

In message <19970512.7586568.AC25@contessa.phone.net>, 
Mike Meyer writes:
>
>I think she's still right - the technology required to snoop credit card
>numbers off a web server is noticably newer (and hence less obtainable) than
>the technology required to snoop credit card numbers off a hotels phone
>lines.

The issue isn't at the server, which is either run by competent, trustworthy 
people or there's no hope at all anyway.  At the _user_ end, though, you're 
trusting everybody who shares the same piece of ethernet.  In our public 
comuting sites that is a very scary thought.

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Received on Monday, 12 May 1997 15:08:39 UTC