Re: [Leica] Pay Pal payments

["Joe Codispoti" <joecodi@thegrid.net>]

I have to admit that I too was hesitant about the security of internet
shopping and releasing personal information, as well as the fact that
registering at PayPal was the first and only time I used my credit card over
the internet.
However, I cannot believe that a business which deals strictly in financial
transactions (and one that supposedly is backed by Deuche Bank) would be any
less secure than a cyber store. Registering at PayPal is the same as
shopping at Joeschlock.com, in both cases it is done by email.
Joe




- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Howard" <howard.390@osu.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2000 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Pay Pal payments


> Joe Codispoti jotted down the following:
>
> > Paypal essentially is a "middleman" that allows the buyer to pay with a
> > credit card directly to the email address of the seller.
>
> I would advise anyone NOT to send their credit card information over
regular
> email to anyone.  It is not secure, it is not encrypted, and can bounce of
a
> large number of different machines (with the ability to be stored or read
on
> any one of them) before reaching the intended recipient.
>
> Secure Internet servers at shopping sites are one thing, but regular email
> is a very different beast altogether.
>
> M.
>
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