Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Martin, I beg to differ. I do not have any statistics, but I think that the Internet is a lot more secure than most people think. Right now my wife is in the US with the children. She is probably using her credit card at least 10 times a day in different shops and restaurants. If two months from now I find a funny charge on my statement, I will have no idea whatsoever where the crook was. It is not that different from someone intercepting an email. Having said this, most of the good online businesses I deal with do not require you to send your credit card details via email. They typically have a secure web site where you input your information only once (the first time you shop there), and all subsequent purchases do not require any re-entry of this. This is how Amazon.com, Foto Mayr, WHSmith.co.uk and many others work. In this kind of environment, I submit that shopping online is more secure than shopping in the traditional way. Nathan Martin Howard wrote: > The difference is that you have some idea of where your card has been and > that the people working at the restaurant or telephone mail order know this. > Knowing where to look for the perpetrator wouldn't be that hard. SNIP > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/