gyptazy (@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch)

gyptazy

@gyptazy@gyptazy.ch

Believer in the power of open-source & community-driven innovation.

Former AS20621 NetOp that loves FreeBSD & illumos. Currently mostly in DevOps & developing (Python, Rust). Contributes to #Ansible & #GradenLinux. Evaluating and production usage of #RISCV hardware/software.

Projects:
* BoxyBSD.com - A free VM hosting service to provide some value back to the community.
* manpageblog.org - A static blog generator in manpage design.
* QualvoSec - A security patch management tool.

Blog: ✔ https://gyptazy.ch
GitHub: ✔ https://github.com/gyptazy
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gyptazy » 2024-04-11
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@evilham@chaos.social #BoxyBSD is a free service, so luckily no payments to process. However, I think about using PayPal as a verification system to avoid abusing the service. As far as I understand the docs and API I should be able to use the service to only obtain the users emailaddress from PayPal without processing any other personal information or data.

Within the signup process the same email address must be used and a dummy payment of 0,01USD be performed. Via the API I can get validate the email address. The idea is that all person verification have already been done by PayPal. Next, I'm not processing any financial data because PayPal has dedicated contracts with each user. But I need to get my point of view safe because I don't want to get sued for any mistakes or wrong assumptions I made by providing a valuable service for free for the community.