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DenisO, on Jan 25 2004, 10:43 AM, said:
fred, on Jan 20 2004, 08:55 PM, said:
We hope that some of you will be willing to give the BB$
thing a try, even if there is not too much to buy right now.
Please do not worry about the security or confidentiality of
your credit card and personal information. We are being
super-careful about that.
Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com
thing a try, even if there is not too much to buy right now.
Please do not worry about the security or confidentiality of
your credit card and personal information. We are being
super-careful about that.
Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com
Hi Fred
Iwish you well with this new initiative - I have one concern. You say don't worry about security of credit card details - however I don't see the little padlock that I associate with securely encrypted sites. The padlock gives me confidence to release credit card details.
DenisO
Thanks for your good wishes, Denis.
The padlock that you refer to is a symbol that is displayed
by your browser (Internet Explorer) to let you know that the
web site you are visiting is secure.
In recent version of BBO we have been using a similar
symbol to indicate that a given tournament is restricted and
that a given bridge table has "permission to join and/or
kibitz" enabled.
I *could* include another padlock symbol in the credit
card authorization window to make people feel more
comfortable about security, but just because we are not
displaying this symbol doesn't mean the transactions are
not secure.
Bottom line is the presence or absense of the padlock
symbol indicates security if and only if you are on a
web page. The BBO client is not a web browser (yet!)
and when you try to issue a credit card authorization
through BBO you are not on a web page.
Hope this explanation makes sense.
Fred Gitelman
Bridge Base Inc.
www.bridgebase.com