tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 10 18:12:49 1996
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Re: Hamlet Update
> Dear Lawrence & Chris,
>
> Don't you think E-mailing your Credit Card number could be a little bit
> stupid? Out there in the nasty world of "the NET", you find nasty people
> called "Ferengi" who would take great pleasure in cracking your E-mails and
> snatching your CC numbers. Being "Ferengi" they take great pride in rule 52,
> of 'The Rules of Acquisition', "Never ask when you can take!!";-)
>
> Be smart send a check you can block, if you have to.
Well, honestly, sending your credit card number over the 'net is not
NEAR as dangerous as people make it out to be... No more dangerous than,
say, giving your number to some $4.95 an hour employee at the other
end of a mailorder line.
That being said, the KLI -does- have a PGP key, available by fingering
[email protected]. Submitting this information via PGP is most definately,
beyond a reasonable doubt, much safer than the above scenario, or just
about any other that comes to mind. Barring any astronomical advances
in number theory, PGP will be very secure for a very long time.
For those who don't know what PGP is, do a search for it on Yahoo
(http://www.yahoo.com) on the web -- It's a military-grade encryption
proggy that makes it real easy to do exactly the kind of thing Lawrence
suggests.
Oh, and to Lawrence: Shame on you.
:)
-WW