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Subject: Re: [Leica] what would you do ?
From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:34:47 +0100
References: <B663FF21.3506%howard.390@osu.edu>

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
>

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Nathan Wajsman
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