The security threat is vastly overestimated by the military and homeland security types in order to increase their funding, and create the fear and hysteria they need.

I heard they also use the postal system.

So of course hackers don’t exist. If they did, the banks might become liable for anything these non-existent hackers might or might not have done to or with any info about the banks alleged customers and any money these alleged customers might or might not have had in accounts with the banks.

Assuming that customers exist of course. If the banks believe customers don’t exist, it would certainly explain their apparent attitudes towards their customers. “They don’t exist, so their complaints don’t exist, so we can charge them anything we like and ignore what they say about it.”

So of course hackers don’t exist. If they did, the banks might become liable for anything these non-existent hackers might or might not have done to or with any info about the banks alleged customers and any money these alleged customers might or might not have had in accounts with the banks.

Assuming that customers exist of course. If the banks believe customers don’t exist, it would certainly explain their apparent attitudes towards their customers. “They don’t exist, so their complaints don’t exist, so we can charge them anything we like and ignore what they say about it.”

They always did. They were probably using it before you and I were. “Terrorists” are just like you and me – they use whatever technology is around them and always have.

I don’t know why the mainstream media is so alarmist when describing how terrorists have seemingly “moved” on to the previously safe (yeah right!) internet.

Anything that allows people to communcate with each other is “dangerous” to some people.

Encryption, gobs of security, passwords, nothing does any sort of good in this aspect without security at the very beginning of the transaction, the users computer. What they don’t tell you is that if you have a keylogger in your computer, none of this works. Your information, that everyone including you wants to protect, is already compromised BEFORE you start the transaction. Keyloggers read what keys you press and usually what mouse strokes you make while you are on line. It is then later harvested to some unkown site. Reading the key strokes happens before any encryption, any password, any sort of security happens and therefore all are unknowingly suspect to give away that info to the very people they are wanting to protect you from.

Instead those same business will claim their part is great and disown any individuals security when push comes to shove. I also suspect those businesses have no alternatives to the methods they now use. If the methods now used have no other choices then it is far easier and cheaper not to acknowledge the problem and if a customer should actually say something, then it will always be the users fault.

Greedy a-holes shooting themselves in the foot as usual.