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Foil 6 Need for Security in Commerce - I

From Remarks on Java and Internet Security Web Certificate CPS616 Enhancement -- Summer 1997 . by Geoffrey C. Fox
Suppose we are buying something from information from an Internet Web Site
Many of the hazards (security risks) are similar to those in mail or postal shopping with sometimes enhancement due to world wide nature of "attacks" and the ease with which digital (as opposed to analogue phones) information can be eavesdropped reliably.
Credit Card number
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Ordered Item comes by traditional mechanisms

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