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To: Scumbria who wrote (47008)	1/22/1999 11:36:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) of 1580419

Re: "Do you do a security investigation on every store clerk you hand your credit card to? Check out their phone lines for digital security? Make inquiries about the cleaning staff? Investigate the security of the bank they are dealing with?" Exactly. The risk of hacker picking off your credit card number from all the other noise on the internet is probably much less likely than some joker on the other end of the mail order line at LL Bean, J Crew, etc. appropriating the number for his person use after you give it to him over the telephone. And in either case, it doesn't matter, because your credit card insures you against these sorts of fraud. Paul has suggested that Intel is aiming at facilitating bigger transactions which people are too nervous to do online right now, but he's been unable to give me an example of such a transaction. The really big transactions (wiring money, etc.) are already done electronically over proprietary systems with perfect security. Current internet security technology is enough to handle just about everything else I can think of. Kevin

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