From: "tim" <520010973502.removethis@t-online.de>
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Credit card madness.
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:55:08 +0100


"Chris Blunt"  wrote in message 
news:nbj3p0ddujeoe52pie9r7bhugi1i6o91dg@4ax.com...

>>The network isnt that sophisticated.
>
> Surely it isn't that sophisticated by today's communication standards.
> I can sit at my PC and be connected almost instantaneously  to any
> other device on the network anywhere in the world. If I can do that as
> a private individual why would it need anything much more
> sophisticated to enable a merchant to communicate with any card issuer
> in the world?

The need to make doubly sure that the information you are
accessing isn't compromised and isn't freely available to people
who shouldn't be accessing it.

tim

>
> Chris
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