On Tuesday 02 March 2004 22:55, Victor Odhner wrote:
> Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Hello everybody:
> > My brother-in-law just called me on behalf of a friend who works for one
> > of those short-term loa[n] companies.  They need help in setting up a
> > secure page as they'll be asking people to enter SSN's and other
> > sensitive info.  They do have a webmaster but he doesn't know how to do
> > that.
>
> Wow, that's scarey.
>
> A financial company that is plunging into an Internet
> based operation and collecting people's private information,
> and all they *think* they need is "help in setting up a secure page".
>
> If they're that clueless about security, I'm more concerned
> about what happens to the sensitive stuff after it gets past that
> "secure page".
>
> Hopefully a persuasive and fully qualified security guru will
> respond to this.  Somebody carrying a big cluestick.
>
> Vic

That's why I posted it to this group.  I know I don't have the expertise to 
do the job, but I'm confident that there are others among us who can.

Vaughn

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