Policy Routing Using Linux®

Security and Commerce

Security, stability, and ease are a holy grail to current e-commerce vendors. The usual disclaimers and arguments prevail about the scope of the supposed problems. These are all very technically interesting, but from the point of view of the end user, all very irrelevant. The original demographics that drove the interest in e-commerce are simple.

Remember back to some of the original surveys of Internet denizens in 1993/94, especially some of the "average Web user" results. Most of these surveys showed that the average Web surfer was highly educated, upper middle class income, with rather large discretionary spending habits. And at that time that was mostly true because outside of the University settings, only the somewhat ...