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How simple sysadmin was in 1994 with no cryptography on any protocol. Everything could be easily MITM'd. Your credit card number would get jacked left and right
by qingcharles 6mo ago
How simple sysadmin was in 1994 with no cryptography on any protocol. Everything could be easily MITM'd. Your credit card number would get jacked left and right in the 90s.
- icedchai 6mo agoNobody was taking credit cards online then. Your telnet sessions were easily sniffed, however.
- qingcharles 6mo agoNot in '94, sure. But a couple of years later it was common and SSL was still uncommon, for a bunch of reasons, and also everyone was storing the card numbers in plaintext on their servers too. Telnet was sniffed. IRC was being sniffed and logged.
- icedchai 6mo agoYes, I worked on some early ecommerce sites. Often, we'd accept credit cards with SSL and then send them out with email (plain text SMTP) to the customer, for manual entry. Very secure.
- gerdesj 6mo agoCool. Feel free to explain how to tighten things up. I've just given them part of a recipe for using DNSSEC. I suspect you are not actually human .. qingcharles.
- qingcharles 6mo agoI don't even understand what your comment is about, my dude. Given who a recipe? DENIC?
- icedchai 6mo agoLook at his previous post. He described how to set up DNSSEC with PowerDNS.
- account42 6mo agoAnd your mailman can also just open your letters. So what, it mostly doesn't happen in developed countries. Not everything needs an airtight technical solution, we have way less costly ways to deal with unwanted behavior.