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To: Al Bearse who started this subject	8/9/2002 4:05:03 PM
From: jonkai	of 74651

from netcraft: just as soon as a whole bunch of passport users get their credit card numbers stolen.... (again).... then MSFT's plans of controling people's information will crumble..... Secure Sites are anything but ... A recent dialogue between the two leading certificate authorities Verisign & Geotrust has highlighted that the secure site seals handed out to sites by certificate authorities and lock icons shown by browsers can often mislead consumers into believing that a site is more secure than it actually is. Although the site seal and browser lock may look reassuring, there is no assurance at all that the site is not vulnerable to some well known exploit, and typically many are. The discovery of remote vulnerabilities in Microsoft Commerce Server and Microsoft-IIS published last month, has left many commerce and financial sites open to attack, and there is often no clear cut way in which a site's prospective customers can legally determine whether their transactions and data are likely to be safe or not. Credit card companies ultimately have the opportunity to look after themselves through withdrawing a site's merchant status, but finance industry regulators may need to take a much more active interest in the security of banking sites before the situation improves.

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