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Author Re: [PHP-DB] Credit Card Encryption
Daniel Brown

2007-12-19, 7:00 pm

On Dec 19, 2007 4:45 PM, Bastien Koert <bastien_k@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Nope, I still would not recommmend it. The only place the CC data should travel to is the payment gateway. Anything else is a security risk. Why does your client process by hand? They should be using a payment gateway.


That's true, Bastien, but if for whatever reason it's not an
option for them, what? Tell them it's tough cookies and they're SOL?

Our job as programmers - especially freelance - is to make things
happen as safely and securely as we can, but as a bottom line, make it
happen. I'm sure we (most of us) take the responsibility to
discourage a client from making such choices, and to educate them on
alternatives that are better for their interests, but still - at the
end of the day, we're still just code monkeys. We're expected to
build what the client needs, or else they'll find someone else to do
it for them.

And I don't really like to go hungry. ;-)

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