Before you roll your eyes in disdain that this blog is perpetuating a meme equivalent of a chain mail, please understand I am posting this purely out of fear and self-preservation. After being “tagged” for this duty I expressed my concerns in participating via Twitter and received the following response from Erin Jacobs:
So… in an effort to control “my version of the truth”, as much as I don’t care to expose things not known about me (after all they are not known for a reason), here I go.
1. I have a FULL HOUSE. No, I’m not talking about poker. Literally, I’m married with 3 kids ages 6 and under, I have a dog, a cat and even fish (technically the fish is my daughters).
2. I come from a lineage of professional and semi-professional baseball players. I have had relatives who have played in both minor and major league baseball including my grandfather who pitched for a season with the Boston Red Sox and played with Ted Williams. I also played on the same baseball team in summer leagues with someone who eventually made it to the majors.
3. Speaking of lineage, I am #4 in a lineup of 5. I’ll let you figure that one out.
4. My first computer was an Atari 400 with a membrane keyboard and a whopping 4KB of RAM. My first two cartridges were Basic and Assembler. Later I added a modem and cassette drive. I was 9 years old, you do the math.
5. SHAMELESS PLUG: In an effort to hijack most public things I do these days, I have (along with @rybolov) become an un-official evangelist for SCAP. Do me a favor and go check it out.
As part of this meme, I am now required to tag 5 additional people because that’s how these things work I guess (smell the enthusiasm?). So my apologies to: Mike (@rybolov) Smith, Ben (@falconsview) Tomhave, Trey (@treyford) Ford, Alex (@alexhutton) Hutton, and Dan (@danphilpott) Philpott.
Too bad. *Rolling eyes even more*
made friendship three years ago with edward thayer ”blackie” bellis about 85 yrs old, former baseball pitcher at U of Ala ’46,’47 residing in The Villages, FL. also played pro minor league baseball in Lynn MA ’47. i recently received copies from Lynn newspaper during baseball season of ’47 naming ed bellis several times as player on that team…had lunch with blackie about once a month up entill two mo ago….his answer maching on phone does not return my calls…would like to found out his current wherebouts…….auburn jack
Hello: since I could not find any e-mail address to write to you, I have chosen this box to do so. I have been reading the book “Beautiful Security”, and have just finished chapter 5. I have found “beautiful” the proposed model; in fact, it made me think: how come nobody ever thought of this before?
Anyway, my only observation is that you have deemed your model as suitable only for card-not-present transactions. After thinking about it a little longer, the model fits perfectly card-present transactions, because the parties involved are just the same. From what I have read, I think consumers should use their credit cards (even debit cards) only with merchants that comply with all requirements proposed by you.
All in all, congratulations for your fresh interesting ideas about security.
eddie….
i finished my research on blackie, it turned out 26 pages which includes his career at u of ala…….i sent him one at tampa and i also spoke with him on phone asking if he minded me offering you a copy……i will keep the original but if you want the other copy just let me know what address to send…….i received your previous email with tampa phone………that was blackies first question, ” how did you find me ?………………..jack 352-787-2436
@andres thanks for the very kind words regarding the book. The chapter has actually been turned into a wiki on the O’Reilly commons site. I’d love it if you would look it over and perhaps edit and create additional content that you think would make this model apply to card present transactions as well.
you can find the wiki here: http://commons.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Beautiful_Trade:_Rethinking_Ecommerce_Security
Ed, when are you going to swim the Chicago River?