Jeff Lasman wrote:
When I wrote her back (replied to the email) explaining that I had
Firefox the email got returned with a nice message telling me I should
call again instead, that PayPal doesn't accept replies to their emails.
Let me rephrase what I said before: I no longer feel comfortable leaving
money in PayPal's hands.
Well, I see that as crappy customer service, not as sufficient proof
that there is something fundamentally wrong with their security.
Do I think that it's perfect? There are definitely some causes for
concern with the way they do things, IMO.
But it's hardly the most insecure thing I'm going to do in the day. If
I go out to eat and the waiter scans my card, I'm guessing I have a
better chance of getting "hacked" than through a simple PayPal
transaction, particularly when I couple it with some sort of stronger
encryption thing like the OTP thing Dante suggested or the SMS solution
that I personally use.
On a side note, if you really want to save money for big transactions
and don't want to mess with going to the bank to cash checks, consider
just sending money direction via your bank.
Lots of banks do this nowadays for free, and I'm doing this instead of
PayPal on larger transactions. Plus, some banks will let you just mail
checks to a particular address and they'll automatically dump those
checks in for free. (This assumes, of course, that someone doesn't write
you a hot check, in which case, you're out the fee that the bank charges.)
