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RE: [ic] Credit Card Info
> On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 08:20:18PM -0000, Garry wrote:
> > Why is it so hard to install PGP? - I have tried but with
> no success
> > and I can't understand the code needed. As a potential end user of
> > IC, it seems to me that there is an assumption that we all
> have to be
> > real brainy programmers or, to be able to understand the literature
> > which, to me, might as well be in an unfamiliar foreign language.
> >
> > I have seen several people on here almost beg for simple, step by
> > step, clear english instructions on how to encrypt credit
> card info. I
> > have given up asking because of the embarrassment factor involved.
> > Replies like, "people who can't, shouldn't" - is not
> appropriate, I am
> > not using IC to make money out of third party clients, I
> don't want to
> > learn ITL, or Linux or perl - but why should this exclude me from
> > being able to use the software?
>
> If my doctor can't he shouldn't, if the guy mowing my lawn
> can't (or cuts down too much of my garden) he shouldn't, if
> the bus driver can't, he shouldn't, if all the people driving
> the other way on the road can't,
> watch out!, etc.... If you were only handling your own data
> in a sandbox, that would be one thing; my 8 year old can
> drive my truck in the north woods but nowhere else.
>
> Look at all the people STILL infected with code red and
> nimda. How sad is it when we see something like
> secure.somebank.com trying to infect us with it?
>
> IC is **too easy** to set up (sorry Mike). If you don't know
> your OS, then should you be running a store on it? Please do
> not be embarrassed about
> getting someone else to help.
This reminds me of the binary modules debate on lkml. We should have a
message coded somewhere that automatically e-mails VISA when someone
disables the IC encryption requirement. That would be a hoot.
Dan Browning
Kavod Technologies
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