Saturday, December 16, 2006
You thought maybe financial data transfers were encrypted?
In case you missed this on Slashdot, a programmer who works on electronic funds transfer and card authorization systems says merchants send batches of credit card data in plaintext over POTS lines.
It's not just phone taps that could put that information at risk. There are other ways to get data out of a modem.
It's not just phone taps that could put that information at risk. There are other ways to get data out of a modem.
