UKNM: Re: Credit card fraud and Philip and Alex's Guide...

[Lee]

I seem to remember WorldPay telling me that the 70% of fraudulent credit 

card transactions attributed to the Web are mostly coming from fake credit 

card number makers - pieces of software which are widely available on the 

Web. Obviously using these is not the same as giving somebody else's credit 

card details. From what I have found out about them (in a desperate attempt 

to find a more equitable way to pay parking fines ;-)) you can only use 

them for transactions under a low limit, where, for the merchant the cost 

of three-way authentification is not worth the hassle. But I'm well beyond 

my expertise level here, the point I'm making is that it is credit card 

fraud but not the customer-victimising kind. Simon Manley, WorldPay's PR 

chappie may have his finger on the  figures.


I heartily agree with Jay on Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing. 

Greenspun's writing is superb, his technical views are.... interesting, and 

his views of the politics of software vending are spot on. You do have to 

treat some of his figures carefully. The figures he gives for working out 

the return on building a web-site assume you are using $500,000 HP servers 

similar to those he has built his sites on courtesy of MIT's budget. I 

assume it is less desperately difficult to get a visible return if you're 

building a web-site on load-balanced RH Linux 6.0.


His technical views assume you are not a techie fashion victim, but I think 

most of us sell to clients who are techie fashion victims or who are 

advised by them. Anyone had any experience of offering Tcl as a glue 

language to British industry?


Lee Kimber

Freelance IT Writer 


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