Posted by Oli Filth on 10/12/05 20:51

Ben Xia said the following on 12/10/2005 17:49:
> Thanks for the very quick reply, I want to know the mac address of my
> clients as I guess these is the best way to fight with internet fraud.
> Too sad according your answer seems no way to detect the remote mac
> address... as you know to detect the ip address is not very useful... so is
> there some better way to detect the fraud? my website has lost 2000 dollars
> as some guy are using stolen credit card and do repeat order from different
> ip address and different account...
>

Unless you have some way of identifying stolen credit card numbers, how
do you expect to be able to protect against this? How would knowing MAC
addresses help?


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Oli

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