[Sending from my old e-mail address, since I just realised that the RIPE list still uses it. I must fix that ...] jon@fido.net:
Apart from anything else it breaches several levels of PCI
If their card processor found out, they’d probably have their payment facilities withdrawn immediately :(
Well ... hmm. Who's at fault? The hotel asking for it, or the person actually sending it acros the net, or, again, the hotel for expecting the customer to send it ... :-/ Then again, the number of sites that actually use opportunistic encryption over SMTP is increasing, so at least _that_ is heading the right way. OTOH, going back to fax is not to head the right way, and the RIPE meetings are the _only_ Internet conferences I know of where handwritten forms and modem signals over circuit switched networks is still the expected way of registering at hotels ... :-/ Cheers, /Liman #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # Lars-Johan Liman, M.Sc. ! E-mail: liman@netnod.se # Senior Systems Specialist ! Tel: +46 8 - 562 860 12 # Netnod Internet Exchange, Stockholm ! http://www.netnod.se/ #----------------------------------------------------------------------