Word: safely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worrying about security on the Net. I find it interesting that folks who use cordless phones to call the qvc shopping network on TV worry about Internet security when they can be hacked by inexpensive hardware scanners. Nothing will ever be totally secure and safe, but little is totally unsafe and insecure; it's all comparative. ROGER DAY Kent, Washington...
...find use of credit cards over the Internet to have been safe so far. I do my business over "secure servers" but recognize that there are limitations to all security. I have locks on my house, but it's been burglarized. I live near an airport runway, and no planes have hit my neighborhood, but they could. Most of us automobile drivers know that in some small statistical sense, we could be killed or injured in a car accident, but we keep on driving anyway...
Conducting business on the internet can only be as safe as each party involved in a transaction makes it. Is it 100% safe? No, but neither is any other form of transaction. Can it be as safe as other business mediums? Yes, but only as long as those using the Internet for business try to protect themselves. AL THOMPSON Virginia Beach, Virginia...
...have purchased a few items on the Net. The sites were never advertised as being "safe" for transactions; however, in my opinion, it would be easier for someone to obtain a receipt or carbon copy of a "conventional" credit-card transaction or for a dishonest employee to steal your credit-card number than to go to the trouble of invading your "privacy" on the Net. And only a small percentage of people on the Net have the knowledge of how to tap someone's credit-card account illegally. EDWARD L. WENTZ III Oak Ridge, North Carolina...
Hackers exist, and they do prey on people naive enough to think doing business and exchanging credit-card numbers on the Net are completely safe. However, it is a quick and easy way to conduct business. MOLLY K. DOUGLAS Cumberland, Maryland...