RIPE68 Hotel reservation

[Sending from my old e-mail address, since I just realised that the
RIPE list still uses it. I must fix that ...]

jon at fido.net:
> Apart from anything else it breaches several levels of PCI

> If their card processor found out, they’d probably have their payment
> facilities withdrawn immediately :(

Well ... hmm.

Who's at fault? The hotel asking for it, or the person actually sending
it acros the net, or, again, the hotel for expecting the customer to
send it ... :-/

Then again, the number of sites that actually use opportunistic
encryption over SMTP is increasing, so at least _that_ is heading the
right way.

OTOH, going back to fax is not to head the right way, and the RIPE
meetings are the _only_ Internet conferences I know of where handwritten
forms and modem signals over circuit switched networks is still the
expected way of registering at hotels ... :-/

				Cheers,
				  /Liman

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