[39591] in Cypherpunks
Re: USA Today on Fear of Credit Cards over Net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Ray)
Wed Sep 20 11:32:08 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 11:22:33 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
From: liberty@gate.net (Jim Ray)
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> How much do PC users trust:
>
> Automatic teller machines 77%
> Banking by phone 62%
> Banking by computer 57%
> Using a credit card or calling
> card at a public phone 57%
> Writing a credit-card number on
> a catalog order form 43%
> Sending a credit-card number to
> a commercial on-line service 34%
> Giving a credit-card number
> over the phone 31%
> Sending a credit-card number
> over the Internet 5%
>
> (margin of error = +/- 4.7%)
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Pity they didn't ask about, "Tossing a credit card slip/carbon
in the garbage." Dumpster-diving is still an effective, lo-tech
attack.
JMR
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Regards, Jim Ray
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be
changed until it is faced." -- James Baldwin
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