I have looked at the partner sites for the project http://international.internet2.edu/partners/ there doesn't seem to be much progress outside of the US. Are there plans for any that anybody is aware of?
After wondering whether Googling for my credit card number to see if any sites had it (didn't think it would be a great idea in the long run) I remembered a few times that I have stumbled across sensitive info.
Everytime it was normally down to some bug in the web developers code, or in one case, trying to run an ASP site on a bog standard HTML host, this lead to all the code, and of course the database behind the site to be viewed and downloaded, I could understand this from amateurish software houses, or kids trying to make their first website, but from a department of the Australian Government? that was just scary.
It's very unlikely that the credit card companies don't know about this, but if you consider the time and effort they would have to go through to fix this, the author mentioned removing pages from Google's index, changing the card numbers of the people affected (I can't imagine that really annoying me, my card being changed because of a useless web developer). Unfortunately I can see no easy solution to this, people will always write bad web apps. Luckily in this day and age it is quite difficult to use quite alot of cards if you don't own them, my bank won't authorize payments on my card on a lot of sites without my banking password, this is never submitted to a shopping site, so I can be fairly sure that it's safe.
Chris
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I have looked at the partner sites for the project http://international.internet2.edu/partners/ there doesn't seem to be much progress outside of the US. Are there plans for any that anybody is aware of?
After wondering whether Googling for my credit card number to see if any sites had it (didn't think it would be a great idea in the long run) I remembered a few times that I have stumbled across sensitive info. Everytime it was normally down to some bug in the web developers code, or in one case, trying to run an ASP site on a bog standard HTML host, this lead to all the code, and of course the database behind the site to be viewed and downloaded, I could understand this from amateurish software houses, or kids trying to make their first website, but from a department of the Australian Government? that was just scary. It's very unlikely that the credit card companies don't know about this, but if you consider the time and effort they would have to go through to fix this, the author mentioned removing pages from Google's index, changing the card numbers of the people affected (I can't imagine that really annoying me, my card being changed because of a useless web developer). Unfortunately I can see no easy solution to this, people will always write bad web apps. Luckily in this day and age it is quite difficult to use quite alot of cards if you don't own them, my bank won't authorize payments on my card on a lot of sites without my banking password, this is never submitted to a shopping site, so I can be fairly sure that it's safe. Chris