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Comcast's Incompetence Puts You At Risk
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Maybe this is just a result of being in the military and having my SSN on 10 trillion documents in various insecure facilities around the world, but I would give out my SSN way before my CC number. Especially in a chat application.
You can change your credit card number (cancel the card).
You cannot change your SSN.
You cannot change your SSN.
Actually, you can change your SSN -- it's just very hard, requiring something like a risk of assault or proof of persistent misuse. Of course, even if approved, the discontinuity incurs many other inconveniences when seeking credit/employment/housing.
You may be right in thinking that a cc would be used before a ssn would ever be but it is much easier to monitor cc transactions than usage of a ssn.
Interesting that the frontend is a Java applet but it's posting to an ASP/ASP.NET url. Two technologies that you don't usually see a development team combine.
Smells like a bunch of contractors plugging a few random components together to just-get-it-working?
Smells like a bunch of contractors plugging a few random components together to just-get-it-working?
Reminds me of a story I heard a while back of a store with a few locations but only one credit card terminal. In order to process credit cards as needed they just submitted credit card info by instant message to the store with the terminal where an employee would process and respond with a confirmation message.
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As they say, it's Comcastic!