davidj.org — I thought he was entering data on a Point-Of-Sale machine. Imagine my surprise when he showed me that my name, street, city, state, zip, credit card number and expiration date had just been sent unencrypted over an instant message session!
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greedodrewfirstJan 6, 2007
T-Mobile blows. They double charged me for my final bill when I switched to Verizon. I filed a claim with the BBB, but T-Mobile basically told me, "tough s**t". What? Am I going to hire a lawyer over fifty bucks when they have a thousand on their payroll?f**k T-Mobile. Yeah, I know... Off topic, but those guys are dicks.
rdurfeeJan 6, 2007
Re-read the article. It says who he was messaging....
Closed AccountJan 6, 2007
I think this guy is overreacting a bit. I don't think canceling the card is necessary but I wouldn't shop there again at least with a credit card.
kevin108Jan 6, 2007
A grown man walks into a store and buys Magic: The Gathering cards. What did he do next, go home and watch Pokemon while getting ready for his POGs tournament? This guy is a f**king loser!
ccanni1028Jan 6, 2007
It's not sitting outside wirelessly sniffing. Think how easy it would be to go in and buy something like that, to see what the AIM screenname was. Next time you go in, bring a flashdrive with an autorun file set up to copy the chat history from that username to the drive. Have someone else distract him while you simply put the drive in the back of his computer, then remove it before he comes back.
geowrianJan 8, 2007
@serraYou can dispute the charge, but that's no guarantee that you won't have to pay. If the CC company doesn't approve your claim/dispute, then you're out of luck unless YOU can prove you couldn't have charged it. With Internet transactions, that's very difficult to do. I agree that usually they will approve the claim/dispute, but you're still at the CC company's will. Also, I agree that a rouge customer service rep is probably more dangerous than a single unencrypted AIM conversation, but if somebody knows that every CC transaction is done that way, then they can packet sniff the network for days or week until they have tens, hundreds, whatever numbers of CC numbers and nobody would know how they got the info until after the damage was done. The point is that the harm to a single individual isn't really that high, but the harm to groups of people can be very high.