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> selling books via a telnet interface. Were people just that trusting back then, or had they figured out some kind of pre-SSL way of securing things?
by StableAlkyne 2y ago
> selling books via a telnet interface.
Were people just that trusting back then, or had they figured out some kind of pre-SSL way of securing things?
- __s 2y agoIn terms of MITM attacks, yes, they were trusting Even back in 2010 lots of sites were http, like Facebook, & there was FireSheep which would snoop on public wifi for people logging into sites over HTTP
- SoftTalker 2y agoIn 1994? Most of the internet was unencrypted, and it wasn't very commercial yet. https had just been invented, and ssh was a year away. There was no wifi, everything was dial-up unless you were at a university or something, and snooping just wasn't all that big a risk.
- hultner 2y agoI can only talk from personal experience I did not trust most online payments around the turn of the millennium, but I did order quite a few things online. I usually payed either by collect on delivery or by invoice like regular good old fashioned mail-order, or by the early 00s VISA had something called e-card or similar, where you could generate a temporary one time use CC via a Java applet, this card was only valid for a day and could only be charged by a pre-determined amount, making the risk very low.
- PaulDavisThe1st 2y agoWe were aware of this in the earliest days of amzn, and included a phone-in payment option to try to deal with this reluctance. It was rarely, rarely used.