[48669] in Cypherpunks
Re: More FUD from the Luddites at FV [pt. 2]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathaniel Borenstein)
Tue Jan 30 10:34:58 1996
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:28:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@nsb.fv.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, cman@communities.com (Douglas Barnes)
In-Reply-To: <v02130502ad33448ac18b@[199.2.22.120]>
Excerpts from mail: 29-Jan-96 More FUD from the Luddites .. Douglas
Barnes@communiti (3569*)
> Whether you're a business or an individual, having, say, your
> hard drive wiped clean by a virus would be several orders of
> magnitude worse than the relatively minor inconvenience of
> having to get unauthorized items deleted from your credit card bill.
For the consumer, absolutely.
For the bank, having millions of credit cards compromised by a single
attacker is a more serious risk.
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Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@fv.com>
Chief Scientist, First Virtual Holdings
FAQ & PGP key: nsb+faq@nsb.fv.com
