Nobody was taking credit cards online then. Your telnet sessions were easily sniffed, however.

Not in '94, sure. But a couple of years later it was common and SSL was still uncommon, for a bunch of reasons, and also everyone was storing the card numbers in plaintext on their servers too.

Telnet was sniffed. IRC was being sniffed and logged.

Yes, I worked on some early ecommerce sites. Often, we'd accept credit cards with SSL and then send them out with email (plain text SMTP) to the customer, for manual entry. Very secure.

Cool. Feel free to explain how to tighten things up.

I've just given them part of a recipe for using DNSSEC. I suspect you are not actually human .. qingcharles.

I don't even understand what your comment is about, my dude. Given who a recipe? DENIC?

Look at his previous post. He described how to set up DNSSEC with PowerDNS.

And your mailman can also just open your letters. So what, it mostly doesn't happen in developed countries. Not everything needs an airtight technical solution, we have way less costly ways to deal with unwanted behavior.