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Imagine shopping and not trusting the shop enough to pull out your wallet inside
by loa_in_ 2y ago
Imagine shopping and not trusting the shop enough to pull out your wallet inside
- Symbiote 2y agoBefore chip cards were introduced in Europe (which was 20 years ago so most of my experience was as a child) this could happen. My parents would avoid using a credit card in some restaurants and (less often) at remote petrol stations.
- koyote 2y agoIt's not that I do not trust the shop to scam/fraud me (well, sometimes I do), but I do not trust their IT processes. There are a surprising number of online shops that rolled their own payment processing (or at least seem to be). So it's more akin to entrusting a shop with a photo of both sides of your credit card and hoping that this photo does not get into the wrong hands. Here's an example of this happening where drivers licenses were exposed via an open AWS S3 bucket: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/over-54000-scanned-nsw-drivers-licences-found-in-open-cloud-storage-552544 https://www.itnews.com.au/news/over-54000-scanned-nsw-driver...