Re:German officials confirm 18 million emails and passwords ...
by raverbashing on Friday April 04, 2014 @07:35PM
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Well, the part of the population that cares about information security is very well informed
But the rest seems to live in a luddite world. If you had watched TV more you would have seen that there are a lot of ads for: web games, PayPal and other websites trying to drag the average consumer into, you know, using the stuff.
Paying with a Debit Card is rare in Berlin, Credit Cards are barely non-existent (but they have some other ways of paying stuff online and on stores)
Security of bank accounts is usually done through a list of one-use code numbers (still, they - and several other countries - have payee initiated money transfers between accounts/banks, something that is rare in US/Canada)
But the rest seems to live in a luddite world. If you had watched TV more you would have seen that there are a lot of ads for: web games, PayPal and other websites trying to drag the average consumer into, you know, using the stuff.
Paying with a Debit Card is rare in Berlin, Credit Cards are barely non-existent (but they have some other ways of paying stuff online and on stores)
Security of bank accounts is usually done through a list of one-use code numbers (still, they - and several other countries - have payee initiated money transfers between accounts/banks, something that is rare in US/Canada)