The death of email?
Do Scammers/Spammers Really Turn People Off of Online?
An interesting perspective on the possibility that people are too paranoid to continue using email. Spam and fraud are certainly ways of Internet-based life; where there's a will to scam, there will be a way. I agree with the author that there needs to be a collective effort for companies to up security, but is that a good idea in the hard reality of dollars and cents? Some of these online scammers are brilliant; they live for finding their way around the locks and doors that the big companies put in front of them (case in point, the pissed off hackers that still haven't broken the new Xbox 360 codes...and it's been only been two weeks since the release). Not to sound fatalistic, but it seems like a very expensive venture to invest lots of money for a temporary solution for security.
Is security really such a problem with banks? I was under the impression that both banking institutions and merchants were operating more smoothly online than ever before. Regardless of this lady's attitude in her article, I know for a fact that online spending is up from last year. Perhaps this is an article about an unrepresentative set of online consumers?
Of course, as I said before, there are going to be problems. But perhaps she (and by extension many other Americans) are being too paranoid about all of this. These are the growing pains of the Internet. It's only been a major factor in the American life for 5-7 years now. Give it time. The Internet really has the potential to be the most influential thing in communication since the written language (my sweeping statement for the day). To give up on it now would be a horrible injustice.
An interesting perspective on the possibility that people are too paranoid to continue using email. Spam and fraud are certainly ways of Internet-based life; where there's a will to scam, there will be a way. I agree with the author that there needs to be a collective effort for companies to up security, but is that a good idea in the hard reality of dollars and cents? Some of these online scammers are brilliant; they live for finding their way around the locks and doors that the big companies put in front of them (case in point, the pissed off hackers that still haven't broken the new Xbox 360 codes...and it's been only been two weeks since the release). Not to sound fatalistic, but it seems like a very expensive venture to invest lots of money for a temporary solution for security.
Is security really such a problem with banks? I was under the impression that both banking institutions and merchants were operating more smoothly online than ever before. Regardless of this lady's attitude in her article, I know for a fact that online spending is up from last year. Perhaps this is an article about an unrepresentative set of online consumers?
Of course, as I said before, there are going to be problems. But perhaps she (and by extension many other Americans) are being too paranoid about all of this. These are the growing pains of the Internet. It's only been a major factor in the American life for 5-7 years now. Give it time. The Internet really has the potential to be the most influential thing in communication since the written language (my sweeping statement for the day). To give up on it now would be a horrible injustice.
posted by Barbara at 9:43 AM
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