With a better understanding of how VGS works I really just fall back to my weakest link in the chain questions:
Does Lob hold any PCI level certifications? It appears they hold HIPAA but I see no mention of PCI?
Does Lob provide any interface that shows sent mail and the content (it appears they do)? If so and they don't hold any PCI certifications what benefit do we really have with ever getting a VGS token?
What stops you from scraping this data from Lob's API?
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Original comment below.
I'm confused on how this data lands at Lob with an account number if you never get it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the letter you send includes the account number and not the VGS token?
All of my following questions assumes an affirmative answer.
How is the account number landed in Lob? It appears something must be calling the Lob API with an unencrypted account number? What is making that call?
Does Lob hold any PCI level certifications? It appears they hold HIPAA but I see no mention of PCI?
Does Lob provide any interface that shows sent mail and the content? If so and they don't hold any PCI certifications what benefit do we really have with ever getting a VGS token?
It still requires a jump to the pc to order; but no reason they couldn't add a way to initiate an order from it. It's also a tad less privacy intrusive then echo.
I am not a lawyer but have been involved in various trademark registrations and disputes.
The trademark is for the concatenation 'whoshere'. Given that both are common words obvious to the topic I would have thought the interpretation would be very narrow and 'who's near me' is suitably different. I certainly don't think you should give in to their somewhat extortionate demands.
Even given a very narrow interpretation, "here" and "near me" are basically synonyms. And as I understand it the apps are very equivalent too, they're selling the same product under a near-identical name.
"Red" and "Hat" are common words too, but you'd never get away with trying to sell a linux distro named "Red Cap".
The thing is String.length() doesn't do any re-computation. All it does is return a variable defined in the String object that is modified when the string it contains changes.
See my other comment saying you should ignore any speed suggestions by the article.
That is correct from the String source I am seeing. It simply returns a field, so the JVM probably inlines it into the for loop conditional making this advice not really necessary.
Does Lob hold any PCI level certifications? It appears they hold HIPAA but I see no mention of PCI?
Does Lob provide any interface that shows sent mail and the content (it appears they do)? If so and they don't hold any PCI certifications what benefit do we really have with ever getting a VGS token?
What stops you from scraping this data from Lob's API?
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Original comment below.
I'm confused on how this data lands at Lob with an account number if you never get it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the letter you send includes the account number and not the VGS token?
All of my following questions assumes an affirmative answer.
How is the account number landed in Lob? It appears something must be calling the Lob API with an unencrypted account number? What is making that call?
Does Lob hold any PCI level certifications? It appears they hold HIPAA but I see no mention of PCI?
Does Lob provide any interface that shows sent mail and the content? If so and they don't hold any PCI certifications what benefit do we really have with ever getting a VGS token?