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To: Lynn who wrote (14046)1/28/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: Byron Xiao  Read Replies (2) of 64865
 
I order a lot of books through the internet [rarely Amazon or B&N] and send my credit card number in two e-mails. The first has the first three series of numbers. The second has the last series of numbers and the expiration date. By doing it this was I feel pretty safe sending my credit card information.

Lynn



Lynn, don't ever send your credit cards info in email. THIS IS NOT SAFE!!!! Your emails are NOT encrypted. Your PC probably use IP6 or earlier, it's probably using the SMTP protocol to send mails. Again, this is not safe, your email may be routed to some gateways on the internet where a hacker is sniffing. He/She would have no problem downloading your email in IP packets and look at it!!! This is different than when you send that information through a secure site. In that scenario, they probably use a 64bit encryption techniques. It would be virtually impossible for the hacker to decrypt that information. I mean the hacker will probably have to spend millions of dollars AND years of computation time to find out what it is even using a SUNW 64 processor Starfire machine!!!

Again, DO NOT send credit card info in email, that's the stupidest and laziest thing to do in the internet. Personally, when I registered with a secure site, if the secured site would send my password confirmation back to me thru email, I would immediately cancel that account. You got to be kidding me when you said you would send your credit card info thru email. Don't ever do that again.
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