[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk and Credit Card Machines

[snacktime]

On 5/17/05, snacktime <snacktime at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/05, Chris Coulthurst <asterisk at shuksan.com> wrote:
> > I am planning to deploy an Asterisk server at a local restaurant and was
> > thinking:  I hear a lot of troubles using fax machines with IP trunks.
> > What about using Credit Card readers?  Same basic technology right?  A
> > slow modem to negotiate the transaction.  Does anyone have any caveats?
> > Suggestions?
> 
> Two main problems with this.  First off, it's against Visa/Mastercard
> security regulations to transmit card numbers unencrypted over the
> internet, while the same is not true for sending them over the pstn.
> 

I think I was incorrectly assuming the ip trunks were over the public
internet, so never mind this comment.

Chris