eHow advise to use Base64 to "encrypt" credit card data

From	Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	eHow advise to use Base64 to "encrypt" credit card data
Date	2014-09-22 11:54 +0000
Organization	My Linux Box
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http://blog.human-friendly.com/ehow-advise-to-use-base64-to-encrypt-credit-card-data

   This is a short WTF post about this article on ehow which contains
   insanely bad advice that I thought must be a joke when I saw this
   tweeted extract:

   Design a script to encrypt the credit card information. Using an
   encryption algorithm of your choice, create a routine that converts the
   information into encrypted data. Programming languages such as PHP have
   built in functions that can encrypt. An example is the base 64
   encryption function that can be used by invoking the following code:

   base64_encode($credit_card_number);

   Save this encrypted data in a separate variable.

   ...

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eHow advise to use Base64 to "encrypt" credit card data Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-09-22 11:54 +0000
  Re: eHow advise to use Base64 to "encrypt" credit card data Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-09-22 14:12 +0200
  Re: eHow advise to use Base64 to "encrypt" credit card data scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-09-22 14:32 +0000
  Re: eHow advise to use Base64 to "encrypt" credit card data polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-09-22 18:38 +0100
  Re: eHow advise to use Base64 to "encrypt" credit card data Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-23 11:22 +1000
    Re: eHow advise to use Base64 to "encrypt" credit card data invis <invis@invis.net> - 2014-09-23 02:37 +0100
      Re: eHow advise to use Base64 to "encrypt" credit card data Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-09-23 13:03 +1000

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