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| Yet another PayPal rant... this time, it's terminal |
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| bd139:
Mostly because I run a couple of eBay accounts and they require PayPal accounts to receive funds. Their policy allows disputed amounts to be clawed back. There a theory which is “tell, don’t ask” which suggests that only you should be able to operations with arbitrary risk. That’s the problem. |
| vk4ffab:
--- Quote from: Halcyon on December 02, 2020, 10:02:24 am --- They might not be the "toy" website they used to be, but I still don't trust them. --- End quote --- The question is, is this lack of trust a rational fear to have. Has paypal had large data breaches? Are paypal selling on data to other entities? Are they stealing peoples money? I think offering them a certain level of trust based on their conduct and security is a rational thing to do, to not trust them outright does not seem like a rational fear to have at all. |
| bd139:
Yes to all of those including data breaches. My only consolation is I live a short walk from PayPal’s UK office so I can actually go there and hand deliver my own excrement if I choose to. It’s also far enough from the police station to make a quick getaway down the river. |
| thm_w:
If you are super paranoid: scan in your ID at a low resolution, and make some non-obvious modification to it. Or write on the image "for paypal". |
| vk4ffab:
--- Quote from: bd139 on December 02, 2020, 08:55:48 pm ---Yes to all of those including data breaches. --- End quote --- Visa and Mastercard have had more peoples data stolen than Paypal have, Ebay lost 150milion users data, etc etc and we all continue to use them. The question is one of rational fear, not whether they have had data breaches. Most of what gets reported of data breaches for paypal are hacks that can work in very limited circumstances, not the loss of millions of users data. I note that the OP is not worried about ebay, and yet its lost more data than paypal ever has. Rational fear and precaution is fine, like the post above this one, I watermarked my ID so that it could not be used if ever stolen and I redacted parts of it to make it further unusable. If a hacker wants to reconstruct my ID then more power to them, they deserve to win. |
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