Ok, I understand for Paypal. But when you do update at AOL, do you see the card data?
But really that does not matter & I don't bother about them.
I don't worry if I pass my credit card data to some small, medium, or even big companies, if:
1) the company is known as a trustable company
2) I choose when & how do I give them the sensitive data
3) I have the chance to choose from several of them.
4) it is not a company like MS, who stores these sensitive data (who may be even able to control almost all personal computers of the world).
BTW: If I want to protect my credit card or bank account then I don't keep too much money on it, if I know that I will use it for online purchase. Unfortunately not all people think like me, and they trust blindly these giant companies...
I don't trust MS, because:
1) MS seems to want to own the whole world... MS never seemed to be correct in the business world (imagine the antitrust trial, the MS IE vs Netscape war, stealing ideas from Apple, etc.).
2) MS systems showed several times, that it's not the safest system on the world...
3) MS Passport & Wallet service seemed to point into the direction, that after a time, all people will have to use an MS Passport to access any service, including foreign websites which are not related to MS company.
Just check the list of websites which accepts MS Passport:
http://www.passport.net/Directory/Default.asp And this is just the beginning. I could see that evolving that almost all commercial websites would require to use MS Passport & Wallet...
What you are talking is not the same what MS Passport was able to do using Wallet service. Wallet service passed all profile data (including credit card data) to the merchant. Nor AOL, nor Paypal does this.
Otherwise what we are talking about, seems no longer valid thing, since MS will stop the Wallet service in middle of 2003...
BTW: Passport creation wizard was already implemented into Windows XP. Isn't that interesting?
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