[880] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Java and trojans: any last words before Netscape 2.0 is out?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quentin Fennessy)
Wed Sep 20 19:33:10 1995
To: orchard@mda.ca (David Orchard)
cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 1995 08:42:00 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 15:02:23 -0500
From: "Quentin Fennessy" <fennessq@thecount.eng.sematech.org>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Dave-
The scale of the possibility for mis-use is different between
the examples of someone rooting in garbage for credit card slips and
someone collecting transactions online.
One person in the right place might be able to collect a large
number of such transactions with very little effort. This is hard
to imagine doing if dumpster-diving is involved. There are the
first-level issues of credit-abuse, and the second-level issues of
privacy -- yet another way your purchase-history can become public
knowledge.
Quentin
Who needs a sample signature anyway?
