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ecommerce works because the potential gains of hacking into a transaction is typically hardly worth the effort.
Criminal hackers go after entire databases of credentials, or after companies with a lot of cash to make if you manage to get into their system. But hacking into transactions from private persons is usually not worth the time.
It also helps that critical transactions are protected by two-factor authorization which takes considerably more effort to break into.
In short, while no system is safe, most are safe enough that hackers won't bother to try breaking in. Not because they couldn't - only because it wouldn't be profitable enough in relation to the work it would take.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Stefan_Lang wrote: while no system is safe, most are safe enough that hackers won't bother to try breaking in.
I agree with this mostly and that's why I'm also saying that the XKCD message is building a mythology that "...all computer technology is inherently unsafe."
Stefan_Lang wrote: Not because they couldn't - only because it wouldn't be profitable enough in relation to the work it would take.
Also, we have to talk about one-way hashes and one-time pads (wikipedia)[^]. There are some tech that they couldn't. It does exist.
There are manually created one-time pads that have been used to hand-encrypt (written by hand) that no one has every successfully decrypted. There is tech that is basically impossible to hack (with current processing power as we know it).
And SHA-256 for example has not been broken and most likely will not be. My point is that the XKCD is building an interesting mythology off of an _idea_ that everything is hackable because everything has been hacked so much because of developers mis-using the tech, not the tech itself.
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So in short: "successive approximation method" as usually used for analog to digital converters ?
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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And if you become 50% stupider and have no common sense, you could beall set for management!
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Too bad that comic wasn't available 39 years ago when I was choosing my degree program (I have a B.S. in computer engineering, Wright State University[^] class of '84, go Raiders!).
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Wright State University[^] class of '84, go Raiders!).
Wow, very cool. My son attends WSU right now (about to begin year 3) for Biomedical Engineering.
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Nice! Wright State got its start in 1964 with unusual engineering disciplines like human factors, biomedical, and computer engineering. It had a covenant with its seed schools (Ohio State, Miami, etc.) that it wouldn't compete with them in the traditional engineering curriculae.
Software Zen: delete this;
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What happens to a 9 year old that uses an anti-aging cream that takes 10 years off????
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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With any luck, he turns into a condom... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Something similar to what happens to a kid who tries his mother''s vanishing cream.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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In most cases it should be called varnishing cream.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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If he raids the lacquer cabinet anyway.
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I'm about to do that myself, but I still need to sand the surface a little more.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Unconcievable!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. 
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...True story : That's what a former school mate of my boss did (they met last week). Eight years ago. And he sold them beginning of this year. He is 52, but of course, he stopped working, bought a villa in Austria (he is from there) and a very nice car. And he is now struggling to check what to do with the rest of the money... I offered help with that bit 
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In case you Need any help to help....
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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That's what I'd tell my former school mate as well
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A friend who has a website hosted by GoDaddy asked if I knew how to add a shopping cart or similar to the site so they could start selling their products. I had no idea, never having used this type of hosting to create a web site before.
Anyway, I established that they already had a square space account up and running so didn't need to do that bit. Armed with that and some images of the products, it took around 15 minutes to get it up and running with a fully functional shopping cart.
Bloody brilliant! 
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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And now, the invoice!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If only - this was a freebie to help them out. Wasn't even sure I could do it!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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