RE: [Off topic] Looking for work

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun May 25 2003 - 10:43:25 MDT

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    --- Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
    > Adrian Tymes wrote,
    > > (It used to be an ecommerce server for an
    > > unsuccessful startup, and thus may still have
    > records
    > > of the somewhere under 10 credit cards it was used
    > > with. Every single one of them either was invalid
    > or
    > > has since been changed.
    >
    > You had customer credit cards on this machine, it
    > has minimal security, and
    > you wouldn't be too surprised if I was able to break
    > in and get them? And
    > yet you still doubt that security is a problem on
    > the Internet?
    >
    > I'm not following your logic here.

    It has minimal security *now*, after the credit cards
    have all been verified false or nonfunctional. I
    agree, it would have been poor performance to have
    minimal security while the cards were still valid.



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