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Subject: Re: ChessBase Gmbh and Rebel/Schröder BV on the e-market - sortof

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 02:36:23 01/10/02

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On January 09, 2002 at 18:10:33, Sally Weltrop wrote:

>nothing agaist Ed but his site does NOT have secured transaction. kind of wierd
>considering it's 2002 & the potential for abuse abounds out there

True. But I consider the risk of sending over the CC info to Rebels
website much smaller than sending the info over email to a complete
stranger.

The only realistic attack would be hacking the Rebel webserver. In
that case, a secured transaction will not help.

OTOH, it would be trivial for an attacker to go out sending emails
to everyone whom he knows or thinks has ordered a ChessBase product.
(just watch these forums or rgcc or so), and fake the sender email
and attach a nice ChessBase logo to it. Social engineering is always
the best option for cracking.

--
GCP



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