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Let me be a bit of a stickler about your security statements. This assumes you have to text your credit card information to use this service, which it appears
by agildehaus 10y ago
Let me be a bit of a stickler about your security statements. This assumes you have to text your credit card information to use this service, which it appears is true?
It's not correct to say it's "about as secure and encrypted as it gets". GSM/CDMA networks do employ encryption to and from towers, but it's weak encryption by modern TLS standards, and who knows what happens to it when it leaves the tower? It's certainly not end-to-end encrypted between your customer and your server and could be silently eavesdropped at multiple points.
And if you're receiving and processing the SMS that contains the card details it's disingenuous to say "[we] have no idea what your credit card numbers actually are". Yes you do. You may discard that information after you trade it with Stripe for a token, but you had access to it, and the customer has no guarantee that you've discarded it.
- traviswingo 10y agoWe actually don't ask for you to text your credit card number. When the time comes for a first time payment, we send you a secure link and you need to fill out a form (card number, exp date). After that, we use the card on file unless you say otherwise. Payment form and saved card details are all handled by Stripe, and the info never even hits our servers.
- agildehaus 10y agoOh, great, carry on then :) Might try to be clear about that on the website. Is there some mechanism for instructing you to forget my credit card details (destroy the token on Stripe)?
- mod 10y agoDid you see the simplepostcard post from a few months ago when you built this? Yours is an exact replica fwiw.