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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Ordering goods via the InterNet (how secure?)
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 16:36:34 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960107.778CDA8.F028@contessa.phone.net>
- References: <879.6579T608T1883@kncowans.demon.co.uk>
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- In <879.6579T608T1883@kncowans.demon.co.uk>, kevin@kncowans.demon.co.uk (Kevin Cowans) wrote:
- > 1 How secure is EMail over the InterNet.
-
- About like a fax machine (or most other store-and-forward systems).
- Ask your credit card company about sending your CC number via fax (and
- if they don't recommend against it, check their other security
- measures closely).
-
- > 2 I do not particularly want to send an EMail containing my VISA number if
- > there is a chance of someone else intercepting it.
-
- If you get their email address wrong, the nameserver is down, or any
- other problems arise, the email could well wind up in some random
- postmaster's mailbox. That excludes the time it winds up sitting in
- disk queues waiting to be shipped somewhere else. You have little or
- no control over most of these things.
-
- > 3 I have got PGP, however I do not think SoftLogik will be using it.
-
- Check with them. If you're not comfortable sending them email with a
- CC number in it, try one of the more traditional alternatives.
-
- <mike
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