[39650] in Cypherpunks
Re: USA Today on Fear of Credit Cards over Net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Bostick)
Wed Sep 20 19:00:55 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: abostick@netcom.com (Alan Bostick)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:27:22 -0700
In-Reply-To: <199509201518.LAA78249@tequesta.gate.net>
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In article <199509201518.LAA78249@tequesta.gate.net>,
liberty@gate.net (Jim Ray) wrote:
> Pity they didn't ask about, "Tossing a credit card slip/carbon
> in the garbage." Dumpster-diving is still an effective, lo-tech
> attack.
Why worry about dumpster-diving? Even credit card receipts on carbonless
NCR paper are prey to the hungry eyes of underpaid cashiers or the
waiter who doesn't think you wrote in a big enough tip.
A security scheme is no stronger than its weakest link. Even with the
attack Goldberg and Wagner discovered on Netscape SSL, the weakest link
in credit card transactions lies elsewhere. I find it curious that
USA TODAY didn't include over-the-counter credit card transactions in
its poll.
Alan Bostick |
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