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glatt · 12-02-2009, 01:21 PM

Call me a luddite, but I've never put any of my bank account numbers onto a computer that's connected to the internet.

We've set up automatic billing with many various utilities and stuff, but it's all been with good old fashioned paper forms sent through the mail, and it's automatic each month. I'll only pay for stuff online with a credit card, because if a credit card number gets stolen, it's the credit card company's problem, not mine.

I'm probably being paranoid, but with worms and trojan horses and keystroke loggers and all that crap out there, I am very distrustful.

I'm even a little nervous when I check my 401K account on the web even though there is no way to withdraw money from it. You can only move money around from one fund to another.

One of my greatest fears is that one day I look at my account balances and they are zero because some jerk in Russia hacked their way into them.

12-02-2009, 01:21 PM	#11
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Call me a luddite, but I've never put any of my bank account numbers onto a computer that's connected to the internet. We've set up automatic billing with many various utilities and stuff, but it's all been with good old fashioned paper forms sent through the mail, and it's automatic each month. I'll only pay for stuff online with a credit card, because if a credit card number gets stolen, it's the credit card company's problem, not mine. I'm probably being paranoid, but with worms and trojan horses and keystroke loggers and all that crap out there, I am very distrustful. I'm even a little nervous when I check my 401K account on the web even though there is no way to withdraw money from it. You can only move money around from one fund to another. One of my greatest fears is that one day I look at my account balances and they are zero because some jerk in Russia hacked their way into them.