• mcmoor@bookwormstory.social
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    1 year ago

    Even these days I’m still kinda wary inputting my card details on internet lmao. And for good reason.

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      1 year ago

      That phobia is exactly why I’m still using that piece of crap like PayPal.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, when you give them a number on the phone, the guy at the other end is just going to be putting the number in the same place the website does.

      When you pay in-store with a credit card, probably same thing.

      EDIT: Well, unless, for the last case, one’s using a cryptographic-signature-based mechanism, like the smartcard chip or wireless authentication. But if it’s a magstrip or someone punching numbers in…