A variety of academic papers have been published detailing attacks that defeat SSL and demolish many of the claims made for its capabilities have been published. These include:

www.cs.princeton.edu/sip/pub/spoofing.html
www.bau2.uibk.ac.at/matic/spoofing.htm
www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~pkilab/demos/spoofing/


Why would you take the risk using on-line banking and credit card transactions?
o.k. if you are security wise and know how it all works, but many people have had
large amounts of $ stolen from their accounts due to putting faith into sometimes
false security. What's wrong with the old money order by post, or better still a debit
card account that you deposit only that amount you need to purchase.

Credit card #s over the internet LOL, NOT ME.....