Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> One thing that should be done on the extropy site post-haste is to have
> a real secure form and credit card processing available. It is quite
> embarrassing for a bunch of futurists to have grossly outmoded online
> order and payment services. I was not at all pleased on upgrading my
> membership to see a post-submit screen that says "details emailed to..."
> some extropy address. Does this mean my credit card number was sent
> over unsecure email?
Yes, I recall being very worried about that too.
> This is very bad and quite amateur. Use some of
> the fees collected to fix such nonsense. AFAIK it is not that expensive
> to either process it yourselves or sign up with a service that can
> process secure credit card orders.
Paypal business/nonprofit account; accept credit cards for a 2% fee. (VISA
gets this, not Paypal; Paypal is trying to be inertialess, but they have their
limits.) Note that Paypal is run by people who should probably be considered
major Friends of the Future.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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