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grumpy@en.com (Seymour Dupa) wrote:
>Dave Foran (dave@hamnet.org) wrote:
>: Yeah   out of respect.... for the service ..... Hmmmm
>
>  Yes, we know *why*.  The question is *who*?
>

A very reliable source (I forget who :-) tells me that it's a company
called "Now Online".. I dug around and found a company with domain name
"now-online.com" that calls themselves a "Cleveland Online Service
Provider".. which is the terminology that was used.. they didnt say
Cleveland ISP,, they said cleveland OSP.

There you have it.

I've heard of these people before, but nothing major.

Now I guess I have even less to worry about. :-)

Multiverse has already issued a press release on it, washing their hands
clean of it.. we received a *lot* of phone calls, as did *all* ISP's today
(I talked to a few that I'm friends with).

(BTW, the MV Release is at http://www.multiverse.com/bulletins/ccsecurity.html)

The "alleged" victim of this terrible incident, Now Online.. has a lot
of work to do in order to (A) regain the trust of their customers and
(B) explain to a lot of users how they let this happen.

If other ISP's are anything like us, most Cleveland users have nothing to
worry about.  Our order-taking is done on a secure Intranet (Netscape
Secure Server), and credit card data is immediately encrypted and sent over
a private ethernet to a machine unaccessible to the Internet.

Don't worry.. everything's ok.  It wasn't APK, it wasn't Multiverse, it
wasn't Exchange Net.


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