Re: Registering Stars! v2.5 by creditcard

From: pradman@news.abo.fi (Patrik Radman)

Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000

Phil Shulkind (phil@phildee.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Stig Hemmer <stig@pvv.unit.no> writes
> >As a rule of thumb, NEVER, EVER give your account number on the 'Net.
> >
> >There _are_ safe ways of exchanging info like this, but email is not
> >one of them.
> >
> >Write them a paper letter. It takes some days, but is _much_ safer.
>
> What you say is definitely good advice. However, it's ironic that to register
> with Compuserve or AOL you have to email them with your credit card
> number! I wonder if sending a card number as a zipped file would be safe?
> Can't be any worse than giving a card number over the phone I wouldn't
> have thought?
> Phil Shulkind

Well, zipping it is probably safer, but what you should do is PGP encode it.
That way you can be absolutely sure that noone will be able to read your
message. (This of course requires that the customer service depts have
a PGP public key, which they should have IMHO...)

- Patrik

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References

Re: Registering Stars! v2.5 by creditcard
stig@pvv.unit.no (Stig Hemmer)
Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: Registering Stars! v2.5 by creditcard
Phil Shulkind <phil@phildee.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 11 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Registering Stars! v2.5 by creditcard
innocnce@pip.dknet.dk (Innocence)
Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000