Brian May <[email protected]> writes: > Part of the problem here is how poor the security is on Internet > credit card transactions. All you have to do is place a transaction, > and after the goods have been shipped dispute it with the credit card > company (I lost my card!). Then the retailer has to try and prove that > the transaction was genuine (they can't).
Agreed. What concerns me is the *additional* implied claim: that connections over a VPN will be so much more difficult to authenticate, that the “financial partner” must exclude them. > I am not sure if there is any truth in the claim that VPNs attract > fraudulent credit card. Just as easy to get away with credit card > fraud without a VPN I think. I agree, and that was the position I pressed: that this was needlessly discriminatory to people using a VPN connection, and that the justification of “maybe fraud” does not justify that specific discrimination. I'm open to evidence that does support that claim. My knowledge, of how credit cards fraud varies in different scenarios, is quite lacking. -- \ “The entertainment industry calls DRM "security" software, | `\ because it makes them secure from their customers.” —Cory | _o__) Doctorow, 2014-02-05 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list [email protected] http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb Free Software Melbourne home page: http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
