At the end of the article he issued a warning about giving your credit card number to unknown sites, and rightly so.
Security is a critical, yet grossly overlooked part of, e-commerce.
As a matter of fact, fear of personal information falling into the wrong hands is one of the top reasons consumers give for not purchasing goods online. To see why, one need look no farther than today's headlines. For example, Peter Iliev Pentchev, a native Bulgarian and former Princeton University student, was indicted by a federal grand jury in San Jose on January 26, 2000. He was accused of breaking into the computer system of a Palo Alto e-commerce company and stealing approximately 1,800 credit card numbers in December of 1998. In yet another high-profile case, Visa International recently admitted that crackers penetrated their systems last July and stole information.