Date: 10/21/05 (Java Web)    Keywords: no keywords

This tip comes from Pete Freitag: Always, always set autocomplete="off" in the input tag. For example: <input type="text" name="cc" autocomplete="off" /&rt; Otherwise, if people have the form completion feature turned on their credit card number will be stored in plain text somewhere on the computer (in the registry, or elsewhere). Link Upside Protects people using credit-cards from public computers like in [...]

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