It'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 s

It'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...