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Posted by Richard Lynch on 02/09/05 18:14
daniel@electroteque.org wrote:
>> Amazon store Credit Card Number in their databases. Are we saying that
>> someone could hack into their database server and steal the numbers?
YES!
Wasn't PayPal widely publicized as a victim of such an event?
Why would you think Amazon would be any better/safer?
No system is unbeatable.
So somebody *could* break in.
You can be damn sure they work really hard to avoid that.
>> Or
>> have Amazon gone far enough to protect their data?
How far is "far enough"?
> I supose they use a similar tactic as i have, and have a two way
> encryption
> method.
I suppose they do a LOT more than that.
They might, just as an example, have a network setup like this:
Seg 1 Seg 2 Seg 3
Internet <---> Public Servers <---> CC Processing Servers <---> CC Storage
Servers
Where Seg 1 and Seg 2 and Seg 3 are all on:
Completely different sub-networks
Completely different network cards
Completely different routers, hubs, switches
Completely different color-coded network cables
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