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Re: An attack on paypal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Thu Jun 12 16:47:53 2003
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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:34:33 -0700
To: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>,
David Honig <dahonig@cox.net>
From: David Honig <dahonig@cox.net>
Cc: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>,
Sunder <sunder@sunder.net>, "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>,
"Email List: Cryptography" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20030611152902.00ab8ad0@mail.earthlink.net>
At 03:38 PM 6/11/03 -0600, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
even before e-commerce, the real
>BBB process was that people called up the BBB and got realtime information
>.... i.e. it was an online, realtime process.
>
>the equiivalent for an online, internet paradigm (as opposed to something
>left over from the offline email genre of at least 10--15 years earlier)
>was that the browswer tab;e pf trusted entities were of online authorities
>(as opposed to certificate manufacturing) and if you cared, you clicked
>thru to the BBB and got realtime information about the merchant in question
>(being equivalent to when people call the BBB to actually get some level of
>real input .... as opposed to just a fuzzy comfort fealing).
When I buy $20 of gas with non-bearer credentials (ie, credit card),
the vendor does a real-time check on me. Seems fair/useful to be able
to do same on them. I suppose eBay's feedback suffices... if their
last N "feedbacks" are negative, I might go elsewhere.
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