Re: [ALUG] "Incorrect" auto-complete in TB

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, member jessejazza wrote:

                         If i'm going to buy something and need to

send a credit card number i use a fax as it is secure [unless you dial the wrong number which is a bit harder to do than email auto-complete].

Ahh, a false sense of security! :] What if I was to swing by the office of the company you are buying goods from and I just happen to pick up the fax when no one was looking [or they were temporarily distracted]?

Ok, so it's a very unlikely scenario, but just because you sent the fax somewhere does not mean the intended recipient will be the only one to see it. And this is also even true of email or normal land post.

Nothing is secure. Don't make that mistake again. (All systems, technological or otherwise, have weaknesses available for exploitation.)

- Srdj