Re:The Minitel system in France (1988)
by wmf on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @07:39PM
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I've always heard that e-commerce was enabled by encryption (otherwise no one would type in their credit card / bank details over cleartext)
That's because the Internet is an open network where packets pass through multiple ISPs, you don't know what path packets will take, and sniffing packets is easy. Minitel was presumably a mostly closed system managed by a single telco who could keep out bad actors.
That's because the Internet is an open network where packets pass through multiple ISPs, you don't know what path packets will take, and sniffing packets is easy. Minitel was presumably a mostly closed system managed by a single telco who could keep out bad actors.