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

[Scott Dorsey]

JF Mezei  <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
>However, i was refering more to stores using computers to process
>transactions and send them to the credit card processor. This is where
>most of the compromised database events seem to happen. So more robust
>OS and applications would be welcome there.

I don't think a more robust OS would be a bad thing in any way, especially
in that sort of application.  But I'd think that paying employees a living
wage so they didn't have to steal address databases from their employers 
to pay their rent might be more effective at solving the central vulnerability.
--scott
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