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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
On the B&N system, if you've entered your cc info on someone else's device, are they able to buy stuff?
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Well, I don't have a nook myself, but I rather doubt it. User Guide says a nook has to be registered with a B&N website username/password, otherwise it can only browse but not buy in the online store.
Also, it says it can store multiple unlocks for differently DRM-ed files, and that unregistering and re-registering a nook will delete all the unlock info both times.
As for the various B&N reader apps, NookStudy and B&N Reader both bring up my browser when I try the Search/Shop option, and the website always asks me to reconfirm my login every time I try to do something like accessing My Library, much less make "purchases".
Possibly the mobile apps could 1-click directly, but again, they'd need someone's specific username/password to buy under their account.
As others have mentioned above, it's not the actual Name/CC that's stored, but a hash derived from them which does not store the original entered values at all. Plus someone would have to know the expiry/security code info if they were going to enter the CC on their own account.
But it's certainly a valid concern which probably serves to reinforce the social aspect of B&N's DRM. You wouldn't share your stuff with anyone you didn't absolutely trust, which no doubt limits how much people are willing to "lend" in this fashion.