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That isn't secure information... Emails often contain that info, which is kind of worse than HTTP.
by __P 11y ago
That isn't secure information... Emails often contain that info, which is kind of worse than HTTP.
- slantedview 11y agoBut it is secure information. If I recall, last 4 digits were part of how the CIA chief's e-mail was hacked recently.
- SomeCallMeTim 11y agoNo, it's not secure information. Any time you use last-4 as something secure, you're doing it wrong. As mentioned above, last-4 is sent by email frequently, and email passes, unencrypted, through intermediate servers all over the Internet. Any compromised host can observe all of the email that passes through it. Any process that uses last-4 to unlock a password or otherwise as a secure token is broken by design.
- CamperBob2 11y agoAny time you use last-4 as something secure, you're doing it wrong. It's not a question of what I use those digits for, it's a question of what everyone else uses them for.