On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 14:07:16 -0700, Ken Blake wrote:

On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 11:38:13 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
wrote:

In one sense, you can't avoid online banking. Not in the sense you
mean, but in this sense: when, for instance, you swipe a credit card at
a business, the transaction (usually) involves lots of network activity.

In the old days, if you swiped a credit card (or anything else) and
got caught, they would put you in jail! g

I was commenting on that very ambiguity just a few days ago, so I was
ready for you :-)

Anyway, in both respects, you can't be sure of absolute safety, sadly.

True. But there are very absolutes you can be sure of these days. If
you walk across the street when the traffic light is with you, you
can't be sure that a car won't run the light, and hit and kill you.

But you can be relatively sure the driver won't stop :-(

But as long as the percentages are strongly on our side, we all take
all kinds of risks.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)