From: abostick@netcom.com (Alan Bostick)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 15:51:07 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: USA Today on Fear of Credit Cards over Net
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In article <199509201518.LAA78249@tequesta.gate.net>,
liberty@gate.net (Jim Ray) wrote:

> Pity they didn't ask about, "Tossing a credit card slip/carbon
> in the garbage." Dumpster-diving is still an effective, lo-tech
> attack.

Why worry about dumpster-diving?  Even credit card receipts on carbonless
NCR paper are prey to the hungry eyes of underpaid cashiers or the 
waiter who doesn't think you wrote in a big enough tip. 

A security scheme is no stronger than its weakest link.  Even with the
attack Goldberg and Wagner discovered on Netscape SSL, the weakest link
in credit card transactions lies elsewhere.  I find it curious that
USA TODAY didn't include over-the-counter credit card transactions in
its poll.

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