Re:American Express fails miserably at basic security
by someone_here on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @03:13PM
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Unfortunately, most of today's "security" with regards to credit cards are merely there to deter the easy grabs. Any determined person could easily get anyone's details through a number of means.
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Re:American Express fails miserably at basic security
by amdev on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @03:19PM
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Sure, but why not grab low hanging fruit?
Re:American Express fails miserably at basic security
by mtsmith85 on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @03:19PM
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While I don't know enough to refute the main fact, my gut feeling is that while that may be true, any company doing this time of work on the web needs to at least take care of the base amount of security (using HTTPS where applicable, not storing plain text passwords, etc.)