[thelist] More E-Commerce Questions (Liability, Encryption)

[John Meyer]

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, you wrote:

> I'll probably just design the shopping cart on my own, and use PayPal to
> process the payment. I've read too many headlines that read "Russian hacker
> steals database full of credit card numbers" to walk blindly into this.
> Thanks for everyone's help.
> 
> Beau


Assuming this, why not just verify the credit card number, and dump it
afterwards?