Posted by stjames on January 5, 2001, at 20:03:16
In reply to Re: Amazon.con was hacked NOT!!, posted by Ted on January 5, 2001, at 19:50:21
I would suspect Amazon keeps it's info encrypted
with a significantly large enough key and one way hash, thus making it real difficult to break, even if someone did get the file. It is easy to generate large keys with thousands of bits. At present one would need a super computer to break this. This could change as computing power increases, but you just start using larger keys.If this did happen, no one should do business with such a poorly run company. I was highly suspect of this one. Bewhere if you card company calls you saying this happened. They may not be who they say they are. Get a name and call them back to verify with their published phone #.
james
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