Credit Card Fraud (was RE: UKNM: CallNet0800)

[Steve Johnston]

-----Original Message-----

From: Rod Begbie [

rodbegbie [dot] com (mailto:rodbegbie [dot] com)

]

Sent: 11 November 1999 01:46


<snip>

>And I would definitely not describe the lack of SSL as a "massive

security

>flaw".


Absolutely right.


>The person who manages to packet sniff and intercept a credit card number

>will not become rich.  The person who gets through a badly set-up firewall

>and gets a *database* of credit card numbers will become rich.


>If I were after credit card numbers, I wouldn't waste my time on the

>inertnet -- i'd be bin-raking at the mall.


No, no, no. The person who can get away with _using_ them becomes rich.

Getting hold of bucket loads of valid credit card numbers is easy as

anything. Getting away with using them is the fraudster's art.


Steve. 


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