If you're hungry for music but worried about sending your credit card information over the internet, here's some food for thought...
Peter H. Lewis, journalist for The New York Times:
"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 C3)
Dan Akst of The LA Times:
"...credit card purchases over the Internet are safer than buying flowers over the phone from the office."
Kurt Dahl of The Seattle Times:
"Enough is enough. The public is being badly served by the hysterical reporting about credit-card security on the Internet. The reality is far different from the picture painted in the press. The reality is this. Using your credit card in a secured browser on the Internet is hundreds, if not thousands, of times more secure than any other way you use it.
What percentage of credit-card fraud is a result of lost or stolen cards? I'm sure it is quite high, but it is virtually impossible to lose your credit card while doing business in your home or at work. Once again, Internet commerce is far more secure."
Michael D. Busch, Editor AVWeb Magazine:
"I just completed a three-year consulting contract with Visa International, so I've been "on the inside" of the credit card industry and I'm pretty familiar with the issues. In my opinion, the whole issue of credit card security on the Internet has been grossly overblown by the media. To a large extent, I think it's a red herring. I am comfortable with sending my own credit card numbers via Web forms and Internet mail, and I do so regulary."
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