And this is also the kind of reason why applications are prevented from receiving keystrokes or reading the screen when they're not "in front".
JBQ On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 6:55 PM, george_c <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no way CC's will be stored on device. Rest assured. On-device > client apps will require to be PCI compliant to store such sensitive > info. The page you see on device to enter credit card is Google Checkout's > secure web page therefore stored on their servers. > Personally I would not enter any CC details via the handset for various > reasons & cases I know of. This is why we have also opted at SlideME.org to > never ever ask for CC details from SAM. IMHO, best to use the web page to > register your card and then access market. > George | SlideME.org > > > > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:39 AM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> FortKnox wrote: >> > So I recently went to make my 1st purchase from the Market, and you >> > need to put in a credit card #-- WOAH. I've already painfully dealt >> > with one card # stolen this year. If the number's stored on the >> > phone, and if the phone gets stolen or misplaced, all that's keeping >> > the card # safe is the draw-a-pattern-to-unlock, which isn't easy to >> > crack, but I don't want my credit card # vulnerable. OR, if it's >> > stored on Google's (secured) servers, all right then. Or if it's not >> > saved anywhere, sweet. Can anybody point me to an "official" webpage >> > discussing this? >> >> I can't point you to an official page. >> >> However, I didn't have to enter a credit card number on my phone to make >> an Android Market purchase, because I had already set one up for Google >> Checkout on my account over the Web. >> >> To me, this would suggest that the credit card numbers are stored solely >> on the Google Checkout servers. But, I can't be certain -- maybe it only >> works that way if you do what I did (have the CC number already set up >> before using the Market). >> >> -- >> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >> http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >> >> Android App Developer Training: http://commonsware.com/training.html >> >> > > > > > -- Jean-Baptiste M. "JBQ" Queru Android Engineer, Google. Questions sent directly to me that have no reason for being private will likely get ignored or forwarded to a public forum with no further warning. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
