I don’t think it’s the merchant that gets screwed. It’s the person paying cash.
Bill Holt On Nov 18, 2013, at 12:30 PM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 18, 2013, at 11:36 , Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Nov 18, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am in the same camp as your friends. Having a portal with open access to >>> a checking account seems far more dangerous to me than someone having a >>> credit card number. >> >> I guess I should have elaborated about my use of PayPal. My PayPal >> authentication includes one of those pseudo-random dongles they supply. >> Every time I use PayPal, after giving my user name and password, I also have >> to supply the number from the device. The number is generated using a secret >> elliptic algorithm, depends on my personal key dongle and changes every few >> minutes. This seems pretty secure to me. > > Ahhh... I didn't know there was such a thing. That would be much more secure. > > It looks like PayPal skims about as much as Visa and Mastercard as a > transaction fee, so using it doesn't seem to screw the merchant any more than > a credit card. > > Perhaps paypal is a good idea... > > Bill > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
