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Comment by hn_throwaway_99

2 years ago

The fact that the card number data is stored at Stripe doesn't matter that much. As parent commenter says, the card numbers are still visible on terminal.shop's network because it all goes over their SSH connection.

For most websites that use the Stripe widget, the website owner can never see the full card number, because the credit card number entry fields are iframed in on the page. That means website owners in this scenario are PCI compliant just by filling out PCI SAQ A (self assessment questionnaire A), which is for "Card-not-present Merchants, All Cardholder Data Functions Fully Outsourced": https://listings.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/SAQ_A_v3...

But that questionnaire is only for merchants where "Your company does not electronically store, process, or transmit any cardholder data on your systems or premises, but relies entirely on a third party(s) to handle all these functions;" For e-commerce merchants who CAN see the card number, they need to use SAQ D, https://listings.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/SAQ_D_v3.... This includes additional requirements and I believe stuff like a pen test to be PCI compliant.

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jjeaff  2 years ago

it's been a while since I did the full pci compliance rigamarole, but I don't recall it being that difficult. you basically just answer a bunch of questions correctly about how you are transmitting and storing the data using sufficient encryption and then they run some automated pen tests on your site and then you are done.

  • alt227  2 years ago

    >run some automated pen tests on your site and then you are done

    Haha you are obviously choosing to hide some pain away from your memories.

    I agree that you run automated pen tests, but then securing up all networks servers with the results of those pentests can be incredibly time consuming and awkward.

    • jjeaff  2 years ago

      I suppose on a very complex system, that could be a big deal. But I think the last site I did it on was running on AWS so all ports were closed unless I specifically opened them for a specific purpose and it was just a few tweaks I had to make to pass. I normally only have 80 and 443 open to the outside world.