Neil Greenwood wrote: > 2009/4/8 alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com>: >> Gitso: [...] >> I have concluded that security issues are acceptable as long as [...] >> 2) Â the supportee does not type anything into the screen which is >> confidential such as credit card number, during a session, since >> credit card number is shown on the screen which is shown visibly >> >> I also conclude that if the supportee types in their password >> themselves it is ok because all that is shown on screen is dots, and >> their password keystrokes are not transmitted to my end, only dots.
[...] > I wouldn't agree with the second conclusion. Have you seen the image > recognition stuff the spammers have for cracking captchas? Confusion. I am not sure I understand what you do not agree with here. I think I said that as long as confidential numbers and text do *not* appear on screen at all, then the confidential information is safe, because it is not sent across the stream. Which seems to be what your point also says? -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
