Re: E-commerce site issue?
| From: | Jason Wong | Date: | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 03:39:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: E-commerce site issue? | ||
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On Tuesday 13 August 2002 10:29, Justin French wrote:
> Needless to say, this is not light work. You should seriously consider
> paying someone to do this properly for -- at least the first time, and try
> to learn off them. You should spend lots of time talking with your host
> about security holes, and most importantly, you should destroy the cc
> details as soon as you no longer need them -- 20 cc#'s stored is less
> desirable to a hacker than 2000, or 20,000 cc#'s.
But how would the person breaking in know how many CC#'s you were storing?
Reminds me of the signs that you see in some stores -- "Our staff do not have
access to the safe".
So you can have on your website "Hackers please note we only store twenty
credit card numbers at any one time" :)
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Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk
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