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To: waldemar cyranski who wrote (29931)	1/16/2000 6:23:00 PM
From: waldemar cyranski	Respond to of 42771

Is my little bit of "news" too much for the brilliant technical minds on the thread??? It seems to me that just a while ago you all were praising NOVL's genius in having "the answer" to secure conduct of personal data on the internet? What ? no comments?

To: waldemar cyranski who wrote (29931)	1/16/2000 8:39:00 PM
From: David O'Berry	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Waldemar, What is the actual link? I hate seeing bits and pieces of stuff. Also, after an article I read Saturday I am frightened about e-commerce in general. The article featured another Israeli startup and was talking about their product. If what the article said was true then very few sites without this software are even close to safe. The repository can be completely unbreakable and yet if the sites author is the least bit sloppy it is OVER! What I read was not encouraging for anyone in the game except this Israeli company and its customers. Anyway, the point is that even if this company can secure things now the hackers will find a way. Can anyone on this board think of a program and/or series of defenses on software that have made a title uncrackable? I can't and that is why this snowball is picking up steam downhill. The internet and ecomm just took that problem and exacerbated it. You can call it O'Berry's Law. "No security scheme is unbeatable. Some simply have harsher consequences than others if you slip up and are caught." With that in mind, why would anyone go after the big boys that have been doing this for a long period of time? If you can hit the partners of the big boys and pick up 2500 credit card numbers at a time you do not need to hit the 50,000 credit card jackpot. I saw this as inevitable over a year ago and really see no way to stop it other than to remain as far below the radar of these folks as possible. Someone please tell me I am blowing this out of proportion. I would feel better if you did. David