Re: Editing hosts file

From	Graham J <graham@invalid.com>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject	Re: Editing hosts file
Date	2017-04-27 16:39 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<odt352$vm3$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	(10 earlier) <260420171021086368%nospam@nospam.invalid> <1n54wlb.yg00fcus10kuN%news{@bestley.co.uk> <270420170929173959%nospam@nospam.invalid> <odt1pa$qoi$1@dont-email.me> <270420171125061825%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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nospam wrote:


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>> Personally, I think the mechanism for credit (or debit) card
>> purchase is
>> fundamentally insecure, since you the purchaser have to give all the
>> card details to the seller.
>
> the entire system is very insecure, which is the very problem applepay
> and android pay (almost) solves.


How do they (almost) solve the problem?

>
>> It would be better to have a two step process:
>>
[

[snip]

>
> that's too many steps and not practical in many cases.
>
> people want convenience over security.
>

But I would happily have security for what I see as a trivial inconvenience.

-- 
Graham J

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  Re: Editing hosts file richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-04-25 12:47 +0000
    Re: Editing hosts file Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 13:57 +0100
    Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 09:30 -0400
      Re: Editing hosts file richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-04-25 13:56 +0000
        Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 10:27 -0400
          Re: Editing hosts file richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-04-25 20:15 +0000
            Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 17:10 -0400
              Re: Editing hosts file richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2017-04-25 22:02 +0000
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:57 -0400
              Re: Editing hosts file news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) - 2017-04-25 23:23 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:57 -0400
                Re: Editing hosts file Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-04-26 12:36 +0200
                Re: Editing hosts file news{@bestley.co.uk (Mark Bestley) - 2017-04-26 14:24 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2017-04-26 17:59 +0200
                Re: Editing hosts file Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2017-04-26 20:57 +0100
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                Re: Editing hosts file Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2017-04-28 21:02 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-26 10:21 -0400
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                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-27 09:29 -0400
                Re: Editing hosts file Graham J <graham@invalid.com> - 2017-04-27 16:15 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-27 11:25 -0400
                Re: Editing hosts file Graham J <graham@invalid.com> - 2017-04-27 16:39 +0100
                Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-27 12:15 -0400
                Re: Editing hosts file Graham J <graham@invalid.com> - 2017-04-27 23:17 +0100
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  Re: Editing hosts file nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-25 09:30 -0400
    Re: Editing hosts file Mark <captain.black@gmail.com> - 2017-04-25 14:37 +0100

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