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I really enjoy ecommerce development and have spent the last 4 years professionally doing something related to it. It's flat out amazing the poor security stan
by leftnode 17y ago
I really enjoy ecommerce development and have spent the last 4 years professionally doing something related to it.
It's flat out amazing the poor security standards in the industry.
"Hey just email me an Excel spreadsheet of customer's credit card numbers, I need to charge them all," is not unheard of.
I know there are places where security is of high importance, but I've seen some places where it's really poor.
One of the problems is ease of entrance. In an afternoon, you can get a website set up, sell products, and take credit cards (along with other personal information) with absolutely no knowledge of how to do anything properly. In all honesty, that barrier for entry needs to be much much higher.
- acg 17y agoWhat amazes me is that there are services like paypal, google checkout and others that can handle all this for the vendor. If someone wanted to set up in an afternoon they could: just use a pre-developed card and protect yourself from fraud too. Even quick time-to-market is not an excuse any more.