← Back to context Comment by icedchai 9 hours ago Nobody was taking credit cards online then. Your telnet sessions were easily sniffed, however. 1 comment icedchai Reply qingcharles 8 hours ago Not in '94, sure. But a couple of years later it was common and SSL was still uncommon, for a bunch of reasons, and also everyone was storing the card numbers in plaintext on their servers too.Telnet was sniffed. IRC was being sniffed and logged.
qingcharles 8 hours ago Not in '94, sure. But a couple of years later it was common and SSL was still uncommon, for a bunch of reasons, and also everyone was storing the card numbers in plaintext on their servers too.Telnet was sniffed. IRC was being sniffed and logged.
Not in '94, sure. But a couple of years later it was common and SSL was still uncommon, for a bunch of reasons, and also everyone was storing the card numbers in plaintext on their servers too.
Telnet was sniffed. IRC was being sniffed and logged.