>I bet many vendor web sites don't bother even encrypting your CC info in >their databases... Awhile back, I was trying to help with a really sweet PHP shopping cart (http://www.theexchangeproject.org). One of the fields in the database at the time stored the credit card number unencrypted. I don't know if they've changed it since, but I know if I had started using that shopping cart, there's no way in hell I would have stored card numbers. Plus, no one would give me a merchant account anyway since I have crappy credit. :( I'll probably be setting up http://www.peltiercoolers.com sometime within the next couple of months and just end up using a Paypal business account. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: tim [mailto:tim at tneu.visi.com] > Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 10:50 AM > To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' > Subject: RE: [TCLUG] OT: Secure web without https? > > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Austad, Jay wrote: > > > You might wanna yell at them for being stupid too. :) > > That's nuthin. > > How about web sites which have secure (https) web pages, but > then email > back to you your order confirmation INCLUDING YOUR ENTIRE CREDIT CARD > NUMBER in plain text. (heck, usually in all upper case too! ;-) > > The problem is there is no standard (other than common sense) for what > happens to your information AFTER the information is > retreived from the > web page. There is no guarentee that the company will handle it > responsibly. > > I bet many vendor web sites don't bother even encrypting your > CC info in > their databases... > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=- > What the president of the Motion Picture Association of > America says about > taking away your constitutional rights: > > "I'm rather jubilant now. What Judge Kaplan did was blow away > every one of > these brittle and fragile rebuttals. He threw out fair use; > he threw out > reverse engineering; he threw out linking." > > - Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association > of America. > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=- > ______ _ __ "If you don't have the freedom to > use what you > / ' ) ) own - then you do not own > anything." > / o ______ / / _ . . No apologies to Jack Valenti or the MPAA > / <_/ / / < / (_</_(_/_ -- tneu at visi.com / http://www.visi.com/~tneu -- _______________________________________________ tclug-list mailing list tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list