On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Austad, Jay wrote:

> You might wanna yell at them for being stupid too.  :)

That's nuthin. 

How about web sites which have secure (https) web pages, but then email
back to you your order confirmation INCLUDING YOUR ENTIRE CREDIT CARD
NUMBER in plain text. (heck, usually in all upper case too!  ;-)

The problem is there is no standard (other than common sense) for what
happens to your information AFTER the information is retreived from the
web page.   There is no guarentee that the company will handle it
responsibly. 

I bet many vendor web sites don't bother even encrypting your CC info in
their databases... 

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