I have gone
wild shopping on Amazon for my new metalsmithing hobby. They have a bigger selection at a better
price than any store.
My weekend
classmate Kim works for the Feds in some sort of identity theft division. She won’t shop online anywhere much less at
Amazon for ID theft reasons. I think
that is hideously poor risk analysis.
Brick & mortar stores such as Target have given up hundreds of
millions of credit card numbers to hackers and Target is her favorite
store. Target did not announce the theft
for months. I believe that Amazon has
some of the best digital security experts in the world working to make their
systems secure. Target got cracked by
letting an outside HVAC tech access their server. I did not share my thoughts with her about risk
analysis for ID theft between shopping at Amazon and Target. She did not seem like the sort to be persuaded
by facts such as proven loser that hid their egregious error vs. world leader. I did not mention both my sister and
brother-in-law having CISSP certification, or even begin to discuss security
with her beyond mentioning Bruce Schneier shops online.
I am grateful
for the prices, selection and convenience of shopping online at
Amazon.com. It would take months with
trips to stores for me to accumulate what I will have by Wednesday—and the
prices would be at least 200% higher.
Thank you Amazon.com!
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