[diggan]

> This is why I find it strange that the idea of sending CC information over a dialup phone line was seen as unacceptable.

Simple, new technology is scary, no matter how "safe" it actually is in reality (or not).

Douglas Adams:

> 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

> 2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

> 3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

[mixmastamyk]

Yes, new and scary. But I remember the evening news planting the idea that it was (more) dangerous to the public. Took years for that to dissipate.