From: Black Unicorn <unicorn@polaris.mindport.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 95 04:52:49 PDT
To: anonymous@freezone.remailer.mindport.net
Subject: Re: Fraud Fraut Froth
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On Thu, 21 Sep 1995 anonymous@freezone.remailer.mindport.net wrote:

> NY Times, Sept 21, 1995.
> 
> Fraud Can Flourish Without the Internet
> 
> To the Editor:
> 
> Your Sept. 19 front-page article on the discovery by two
> University of California graduate students of a flaw in
> Netscape, the software used for purchases over the Internet's
> World Wide Web, raises a number of obvious questions.
> 
> First, who needs high tech to perpetrate fraud? Any
> unscrupulous commercial employee could use or sell your credit
> card number without employing technology.
> 
> Every time you hand your card to a waiter in a restaurant, it
> disappears for several minutes. The department store clerks
> and gas station attendants you deal with also have access to
> your card number. How secure is that?

[...]

> 
> Robert Herrig
> Peekskill, N.Y., Sept. 19,1995.
> 
> The writer is a systems consultant.

[For Netscape?]


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