RE: [twuug] Wired News : Hackers Crack Into MS System

[Ethan <telmnstr@xxxxxxx>]

> But what if they put in a little trojan that would send passwords, creditcard
> numbers and the like to the hackers? Being it would be part of the OS's Source
> code, the Virus scanners wouldn't pick it up. They could do the same thing w/
> versions of IE, and it would get out even faster. I don't trust ANY of my
> secure stuff to M$

No worse than all of the ecommerce sites running Unix and people with zero
idea running ecommerce sites on linux. They get hacked every day, and all
of the plain text lists of credit card number are compromised.

As a matter of fact, it just happened to me for the 2nd time. My bank card
was cut off because somewhere a huge company had all of their numbers
compromised.

Credit cards need to be 32 - 64 digits, and they need to tumble every
month.


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