Daniel S. Menasche wrote:
[snip] > The idea of "tipping" is interesting. But who would share their credit > card numbers in a system that is disseminating copyrighted content? > That is tricky. Actually there is a solution to this. Fidelity Investments has a system where you can get unique credit card numbers that you load with a given amount of money, set an expiration date and a merchant that it is to be paid to. Whatever money that isn't used reverts to your account after the expiration of the card. A friend has been using this for over a year and it has worked quite successfully for her for Internet transactions. I've looked into it a bit and the concept is quite good. I can not attest to the back end security, but given that each number is used only once, at least as far as I can tell - they may recycle them after a dead period - so the CC number is meaningless after the money is used up or the expiration date is past. The open source community might want to work with Credit Unions to do a similar thing. Warmest Regards, Allen Schaaf - CISSP, CEH, CHFI, CEI, CSCA Information Security Analyst - Business Process Analyst Training & Instructional Designer - Sr. Writer & Documentation Developer - Certified Network Security Analyst & Intrusion Forensics Investigator - Certified EC-Council Instructor http://www.linkedin.com/in/allenschaaf Security is lot like democracy - everyone's for it but few understand that you have to work at it constantly. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
