Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 18:19:24 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@consys.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Apostolos Makridis <pmakridi@bbn.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: netscape-communicator-4.04.us Message-ID: <19980219181924.33862@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219180006.4456Z-100000@localhost>; from Chuck Robey on Thu, Feb 19, 1998 at 06:04:01PM -0500 References: <199802192049.NAA12677@dnstoo.consys.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219180006.4456Z-100000@localhost>
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> Actually, I wanted to buy Word Perfect for Linux, which I thought would > probably run under FreeBSD, but the vendor won't sell it except thru > Netscape (giving your credit card ID that way) and I've been too skeptical > to do that. Does Fortify give any better guarantee of security? Depends on several things. Does the vendors server support encryption with the higher number of bits? If yes, then you have a *very* secure connection from your workstation to the web server. However what happens to your C.C. data once it hits the vendors machine? Do they dump it in a file in ASCII? Is that ASCII file sitting on their FTP server? (stupid example, but you get the idea). You should worry as much about their handling of your data besides just getting it there. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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