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    Indian online merchants cannot store credit card information from 2022 (rbi.org.in)

    See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29587752


    This is actually a good thing. Think of it like Apple's email masking service - Merchants can only store a tokenized version of your credit card instead of the real card details. I say this is a good thing after having worked with many E-Commerce shops in India as a consultant. Most of them barely know a thing about security, let alone about PCI DSS compliance.

    I have worked with shops that stored the entire credit card number in PLAIN TEXT!. Not just credit cards, even their users' passwords. This also explains why many of them got and still get hacked from time to time. Even credit card processors got hacked due to this. Lot of shitty ones in the Indian market actually.

    The root cause of this, not to cause language flame wars here, but is most of the shops use script kiddos with just basic PHP knowledge. Bare minimum, they're recent fresh college grads who just know how to consume data from a form using PHP using GET and POST, that's it. Most of the code I've worked with just consumes this directly instead of stripping/processing it and end up introducing SQL injection attacks. Atleast, if they used a framework, this would be provided by default for free, but many of the developers hardly know about even MVC.

    (As an aside) - As a personal mission, I started touring around the country teaching college kids for free about basics of web development, security, etc. But, still, I have a long way to go.

    Well folks, that's it for today's note on why this was a good move. Have a nice day!

    Edit: Some of the recent hacks that were not made public widescale like they should've been:

    1. Domino's Pizza India (Yes, the international pizza chain)

    2. BigBasket (Largest online grocery ordering App)

    3. PayTm (One of the largest, if not the largest digital payments app in India)

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    Hey, this is Eric and I ran across bitcompact.com a few minutes ago.

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    By that I mean, when someone like me finds your website – either through Search or just bouncing around – what happens next? Do you get a lot of leads from your site, or at least enough to make you happy?

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    Hi, my name is Eric and I’m betting you’d like your website bitcompact.com to generate more leads.

    Here’s how:
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    Eric Jones calendar_today

    Hey, this is Eric and I ran across bitcompact.com a few minutes ago.

    Looks great… but now what?

    By that I mean, when someone like me finds your website – either through Search or just bouncing around – what happens next? Do you get a lot of leads from your site, or at least enough to make you happy?

    Honestly, most business websites fall a bit short when it comes to generating paying customers. Studies show that 70% of a site’s visitors disappear and are gone forever after just a moment.

    Here’s an idea…

    How about making it really EASY for every visitor who shows up to get a personal phone call you as soon as they hit your site…

    You can –

    Talk With Web Visitor is a software widget that’s works on your site, ready to capture any visitor’s Name, Email address and Phone Number. It signals you the moment they let you know they’re interested – so that you can talk to that lead while they’re literally looking over your site.

    CLICK HERE http://boostleadgeneration.com to try out a Live Demo with Talk With Web Visitor now to see exactly how it works.

    You’ll be amazed – the difference between contacting someone within 5 minutes versus a half-hour or more later could increase your results 100-fold.

    It gets even better… once you’ve captured their phone number, with our new SMS Text With Lead feature, you can automatically start a text (SMS) conversation.

    That way, even if you don’t close a deal right away, you can follow up with text messages for new offers, content links, even just “how you doing?” notes to build a relationship.

    Pretty sweet – AND effective.

    CLICK HERE http://boostleadgeneration.com to discover what Talk With Web Visitor can do for your business.

    You could be converting up to 100X more leads today!

    Eric
    PS: Talk With Web Visitor offers a FREE 14 days trial – and it even includes International Long Distance Calling.
    You have customers waiting to talk with you right now… don’t keep them waiting.
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    Hey there, I just found your site, quick question…

    My name’s Eric, I found bitcompact.com after doing a quick search – you showed up near the top of the rankings, so whatever you’re doing for SEO, looks like it’s working well.

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    Talk With Web Visitor is a software widget that’s works on your site, ready to capture any visitor’s Name, Email address and Phone Number. It lets you know IMMEDIATELY – so that you can talk to that lead while they’re literally looking over your site.

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    Time is money when it comes to connecting with leads – the difference between contacting someone within 5 minutes versus 30 minutes later can be huge – like 100 times better!

    That’s why we built out our new SMS Text With Lead feature… because once you’ve captured the visitor’s phone number, you can automatically start a text message (SMS) conversation.

    Think about the possibilities – even if you don’t close a deal then and there, you can follow up with text messages for new offers, content links, even just “how you doing?” notes to build a relationship.

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    You could be converting up to 100X more leads today!
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    PS: Talk With Web Visitor offers a FREE 14 days trial – and it even includes International Long Distance Calling.
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    If you’d like to unsubscribe click here http://boostleadgeneration.com/unsubscribe.aspx?d=bitcompact.com

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