[Info-vax] One possible market for VMS: secure credit card

[Bob Koehler]

In article <mepa9p$co3$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 
> True.  But then that was also before the internet, and before the brief 
> time of the open internet and open networks (the Morris worm, WANK), 
> and before ubiquitous connectivity, and before the era of volumes of 
> digital cash sloshing around that has made computers into such 
> profitable targets.

   No.  We were on the internet.  And the WANK worm was one of the few
   times we had any concerns.

   I know.  I'm the one who pulled the internet connection and then hand
   checked all our accounts for WANK vulnerability.

   By that time we'd been doing internet with international data flows
   for years.