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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RabidRick, post: 2004449, member: 37868&quot;]&quot;The cloud&quot; is just an industry buzzword for API&#039;s or IAAS (infrastructure as a service). To be honest, I think it has lost its meaning and vpr is right in that it generally refers to darn near-anything online these days. I have a pretty strong background in web security, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>One could agure no web application is 100% secure. To say <i>it is</i> implies there are no bugs, since bugs inherently are potential secutiry threats since their nature is unknown. That&#039;s why good penetration testing on a routine basis is important for an eCommerce site, but fuzz testing doesn&#039;t always capture everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not to mention Ebay itself was recently hacked *shrugs*</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t thinking of using forum software but there might be some similar transactional systems that are open source I could leverage. That, or write it from scratch (in which case I&#039;d probably use Spring Roo since I&#039;m most familiar with a J2EE stack and Tomcat, and baked-in stuff like JAAS and</p><p>Tiles are created with a simple command.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I was really posting this to see if there would be interest. It seems like there would, but I&#039;m very hesitant just because of potential scams. I&#039;ve bought coins from dealers on eBay which were cleaned/tampered with on several occasions myself and sold as uncirculated (though I always got my money back). That&#039;s the biggest roadblock I see. I have the income to back it up in an infintile stage. 1000 people wouldn&#039;t be *that* much traffic.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would also be a lot more niche than eBay</p><p><br /></p><p>There are also transactional concerns and race conditions to take into account just by the nature of bidding (for example, everyone seems to bid right at the last second).</p><p><br /></p><p>Also with regard to subcriptions = fees, I see your point but if it means 10 or 20 bucks a month vs. 15% you are talking about a big difference depending on the amount you are trading. Personally, I&#039;d be willing to pay for something like that but I&#039;m not sure everyone buys and sells at the rate it would matter.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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