The 50 Ways Series

30 Lies About Secure Electronic Commerce: The Truth Exposed - UNDER DEVELOPMENT

You are likely to hear all sorts of things about secure electronic commerce these days, and I figured you might want to know what kind of assertions with limited veracity value are out there.


The biggest class of lies is that the Web is a place that gives the consumer better information or somehow levels the playing field between the big money and the little money. Here are some of the examples:


The second biggest class of lies is that some vendor is going to make you safe. Here are some examples of this one:


Let's move on to the almost mystical belief that the magic of cryptography will make you safe.