🚀 go-pugleaf

John Underwood wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 at 23:49:59, mike <madcomputers@eircom.net> wrote in
> demon.tech.pc:
> (Reference: <tOTB4.1721$RC3.844@news.indigo.ie>)
>
> >Well at least his credit card number wasn't there I can see it now
> >���������� of unsolicited PC goods arriving on his door step.
> >Would seem to be a monumental cockup and another reason not to use CC over
> >the net
> >Mike
>
> I can't see it as a reason for not using a credit card, merely for not
> using a bad supplier. The same would apply to using a credit card in any
> restaurant because the waiters in some have misused customers' cards, or
> not using a credit card for mail order by telephone because some mail
> order suppliers have been know to misuse card information.
>

Not quite the same. Misuse of credit card by a restaurant assume some
dishonesty on the part of the waiter. And if he handles the card
carelessly, he could loose the facility. The e-cockup is more likely
to be caused by lack of training or just by bad software documentation.
Unfortunately this has exposed confidential information to an unknown
number of people, thus increasing the risk of misuse of that
information by somone somewhere. Most people are diciplined and
honest, but it just takes one rogue

Johannes