| What the Experts Say Michael Busch, a writer for AVWeb,
spent 3 years consulting for VISA International, and he says using your credit card on the
Internet is safe.
But perhaps New York Times
journalist Peter H. Lewis put it best - "Sending a credit card number to an
electronic merchant over the Internet is probably the safest way to make such a
transaction. In the last week, for example, I handed my credit card to a waiter who
disappeared with it for five minutes. I faxed my credit card information to a |
business in New Jersey, and the fax probably lay exposed to everyone in
that office for hours and perhaps to the cleaning crew that night. I called a hotel and
gave my card data to a reservation clerk and continued my recklessness by ordering some
merchandise from a clothing catalogue, again by reading my credit card information to some
unseen operator."
"Compared
with the risk of handing my credit card to a stranger, which I do nearly every day,
sending it over the Internet is pretty secure." (The New York Times, Nov. 13, 1995
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