And oh yes, there could be a genius somewhere who has just managed to lift your credit card account number from your Web transaction as it transits the Internet. I'll leave it to you readers to assign probabilities to those events happening. I'm no statistician, but I think the odds are better that one of you will be struck by lightning rather than have your credit card account number stolen from an Internet transaction. The Only Thing We Have to Fear . . . The unknown and the unfamiliar immediately cause us to be suspicious and circumspect.
Familiar processes are comfortable.
And when it comes to new processes and their perceived risks that involve money, even the most liberal minded edge toward a conservative leaning. Information and education change the unknown to the known, and the unfamiliar to the familiar. Only then do our fears subside and our comfort levels increase. Our intellectual side becomes more accepting of the new technology. Perhaps this article has helped you accept the new technology.