Isn buying on the internet dangerous and insecure?
Honestly? Your credit card information is in less danger being transmitted over the internet than it is when you hand your card to a store clerk at the counter. The real danger to your credit card information isn’t from hackers hitting online merchants, or stealing your credit card information via modem or phone lines. The real internet security dangers come from two different directions: a. Hackers using back doors to get into the records of banks, credit card companies and data repositories. This is the biggest danger. It’s also a danger for stores and companies that have records ‘online’ for billing purposes. There’s a great deal being done to improve security of data repositories, which are far more vulnerable than any data transmission stream. b. The second big credit card security danger is the practice that’s sometimes called ‘phishing’. In this case, the credit card thieves trick you into giving them your identification and credit card data. They may do this with an email purpo
