Why you must never generate your own promo codes

by diminish • 12 years ago

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Metatron2• 12 years ago

Also never trust codes generated by some stranger on the internet for free.

diminish2• 12 years ago

Good point. For SSL certificates, and many other security related services you always ultimately trust some strangers, who sometime happen to use names such as "Trusted Certificate Authority" which normally should read "Stranger Stranger Stranger".

What would be the alternative, to find a "Trusted Certified Code Generator Authority"?

Edit: for example Bitcoins, Satoshi and Bitcoin Exchanges. The generator is using a version AES FPE (BPS) standards as I see, so it's kind of peer-reviewed.

Metatron2• 12 years ago

There's a vast gulf between SSL and a third-party promo code generator. The main difference being the number of professionals putting time and effort into SSL standards and the global uptake of those standards. Trust is earned.

To say something as well established as a 'Trusted Certificate Authority' equates to 'Stranger Stranger Stranger' is slightly erroneous. I may not know them personally, but to all intents and purposes my browser is incredibly familiar with the technology and has been for generations. That trust has been earned.

I've no idea what the process was for SSL to become to central, but it'd be a good example of how to reach that position with something like a promo code generator. I'd imagine a lot of time being peer reviewed, worked on collaboratively and if it's ever misused strong evidence of hotfixes in new iterations. A a track record of legitimacy. Of earned trust.

Why you must never generate your own promo codes

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