S3D Re: RE: S3D Re: 3D Book FS

[Sid Herbage <sid@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:47 PM 3/15/2000 -0700, Peter Davis wrote:

>In general, it's a bad idea to send credit card info by e-mail anyway, even
>if you address it only the right person.  E-mail is not a very secure
>communication channel.  Messages potentially get routed through dozens of
>machines on the Internet before they reach their destination.  Anyone along
>the way could be getting credit card numbers (not to mention e-mail
>addresses) along the way.

Absolutely! .... but if you are going to do it anyway, one way to improve
the security is to split the credit card number and send it in two emails
preferably separated by an hour or so.
... sid (sid@xxxxxxxxxx)