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Is it safe for me to enter my credit card number over the Internet?
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As reported in a recent Knight-Ridder News Service article (which appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer), "In 1997, there were no reports of credit-card information stolen on the World Wide Web during a transfer of information over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) line, the kind of line used by Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Explorer. There were no slip-ups. None."
In the same article, Russell Bodoff, general manager of the Better Business Bureau Online (http://www.bbbonline.com/), stated that consumers need to understand "that the Internet is a safe, reliable place to conduct business."
In a Washington Post article, David Medine of the Federal Trade Commission suggested that it is much safer to transmit your credit card number over the Internet than to give it to a waiter at a restaurant or read it aloud over a cordless phone -- two activities that are generally taken for granted as safe.
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Article created on Friday, June 28, 2002 by Sam