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Re: SSL weakness affecting links from pa

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jamesd@echeque.com)
Tue Apr 15 11:07:23 1997

From: jamesd@echeque.com
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 10:14:55 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com, Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Cc: "cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>

At 12:17 PM 4/14/97 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Are you seriously suggesting that users should be responsible for
> looking at the HTML source of every web page they send credit card
> data from?

You are trusting the people who wrote that source when you send them 
the credit card info.  Why not trust them to have half a brain as well?
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