"SSL stops credit card sniffing" is a correlation/causality myth
Russell Nelson
nelson at crynwr.com
Wed Jun 8 01:36:45 EDT 2005
Perry E. Metzger writes:
> It is my prediction that we will, in the next five years, get the
> failure of a couple of international financial institutions because of
> insufficient attention to systems security,
You're being too conservative. I point you to Citibank's loss, last
month, of unencrypted data belonging to 4 million customers. Right
now, I see shit in search of a fan. Should happen in less than two
years.
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