USA Today reports in its 9/20/95 edition, on the front of the Money section, that "Few Feel Safe Making On-Line Transactions". A survey of 427 "computer users" by USA Today and Intelliquest yielded the results below. [The article doesn't say whether the survey was conducted before or after news of the bad seeds hit. <sigh>. I only bought USA Today because my best friend gets her 15 minutes of fame below the fold on page 7D of the Life section today.] I'm not sure exactly what "sending a credit-card number to a commercial on- line service" means. Apparently it's seen as slightly safer than phoning it in, but much riskier than snail-mailing it in to an ISP. How much do PC users trust: Automatic teller machines 77% Banking by phone 62% Banking by computer 57% Using a credit card or calling card at a public phone 57% Writing a credit-card number on a catalog order form 43% Sending a credit-card number to a commercial on-line service 34% Giving a credit-card number over the phone 31% Sending a credit-card number over the Internet 5% (margin of error = +/- 4.7%) Raph also gets mentioned, mainly for "human interest" I'm afraid :/ Even those familiar with the Internet do not routinely use it for financial transactions. Raph Levien -- a computer science Ph.D. candidate reached via Internet -- says he has only used his credit card once over the Internet. About a year ago, he bought three CDs: Best of Alan Parsons Project, Enya and Beethoven's Ninth. Levien is a member of the group cypherpunks, which announced on-line Sunday night that hackers found the security flaw in Netscape's software. Still, Levien says Netscape's system "is among the safest that there is." -Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>