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Hacking in 1980 vs Hacking in 2024
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When I saw that film I remember thinking how outlandish it was for her to order pizza on the internet. Even if somehow that were possible, how could you just give a stranger your credit card details!? So, what, you pay a stranger and just hope your pizza arrives? Completely unbelievable.
Even these days I'm still kinda wary inputting my card details on internet lmao. And for good reason.
That phobia is exactly why I'm still using that piece of crap like PayPal.
I mean, when you give them a number on the phone, the guy at the other end is just going to be putting the number in the same place the website does.
When you pay in-store with a credit card, probably same thing.
EDIT: Well, unless, for the last case, one's using a cryptographic-signature-based mechanism, like the smartcard chip or wireless authentication. But if it's a magstrip or someone punching numbers in...
Come to think of it, whoever the early adopters were were pretty "brave".
In Germany, we were behind the USA with people adopting online payment, people and companies were very skeptical about all this. I remember thinking that Germany would eventually choose to not participate in this crazy online buying trend lol