[ic] Credit Card Info

Mike Heins interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Sun Nov 4 14:59:06 2001


Quoting Robert Trembath (robert@ishoptech.com):
> I have a mod that will print it on the email to the shop owner in 4.8.x
> without messing with encryption if anyone is interested. I've been
> meaning to post it anyway. Let me know and I'll post it.

Please don't do that. If people want it, I ask that you send it to
them individually. I will not support, and this list will not archive,
messages on how to defeat the required encryption.

The following is my opinion, which is rendered as a matter of record
as the individual most knowledgeable about Interchange.

It is easy to do -- but you shouldn't do it. Nor encourage others to do
so. It is actionable behavior when you do it on an insecure network, as
B. Lind pointed out, and people who are looking for the easy way out
usually are the same ones who pay no other attention to security.

Please don't encourage people to be sloppy and lazy with other people's
resources. Certainly the recent Passport thing should give warning.

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