31 Ways To Make Your Computer More Secure

[iNViCTuS]

Nothing is ever completely secure, and it all really depends on how much you trust whoever you are buying online from.

I guess when it is all said and done, I am pretty comfortable purchasing online from most places. It is no worse than paying via credit card at a restaurant when the waiter takes your card and does who knows what with it. It is also more secure than giving a credit card number over the phone IMHO also.

[GreekGoddess]

I have no problem whatsoever with purchasing things online. I think another plus in wherever you shop is getting to know what kind of coverage you have on your credit card in case something such as someone getting your card and using it were to happen. Do you have protection? So much liability? How does your credit card company deal with the matter?
If your company has a crappy, drawn out process for dealing with identity theft claims, you're better off not using your card anywhere, let alone on the net.

[gore]

Another interesting thing thats on this topic, if your like me, you can actually figure out what numbers someone is dialing on a touch tone phone by listening, so when your on the phone with your bank or card company, you shouldnt use a cordless phone, there fairly easy to tap, i did it when i was like 7 years old by accident with a police scanner, i was playin with it and it was picking up a convo with my aunt on the cordless, it was cool (hey i was 7 leave me alone lol ) but i didnt see this in here anywhere and i thought id bring it up in case anyone wasnt sure about this so your more secure using a phone to, also, NEVER use a cell phone when saying card numbers and so on, there worse than cordless phones.

[invader]

hello everyone,

sup gore, what do you think of this one ?

Program that allows two parties to hold
a secure voice conversation using Linux and TCP/IP

Beats me

[argent]

Even if the circuit is secure, the problem is and always has been the fact that most of the time the data sits unencrypted in storage somewhere on a server after it's been used or worse it ends up on some third party sub-contractor's server where security is even more lax. I know personally of instances where this unfortunately is the norm! Online banking and online credit card services will NEVER be secure, as a consumer you have to adopt the same working model as the Top 500 corporations .... manage the risk, in otherwords be selective who you deal with and know the risk. Besides if everything is supposedly so secure, why does the multi-billion dollar industry of "Risk Management" exist?