From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@nsb.fv.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 01:59:04 +0800
To: cman@communities.com (Douglas Barnes)
Subject: Re: More FUD from the Luddites at FV [pt. 2]
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Excerpts from mail: 29-Jan-96 More FUD from the Luddites .. Douglas
Barnes@communiti (3569*)

> Whether you're a business or an individual, having, say, your
> hard drive wiped clean by a virus would be several orders of
> magnitude worse than the relatively minor inconvenience of
> having to get unauthorized items deleted from your credit card bill.

For the consumer, absolutely.

For the bank, having millions of credit cards compromised by a single
attacker is a more serious risk.

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Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@fv.com>
Chief Scientist, First Virtual Holdings
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