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Using Mobile Phones To Make Online Shopping Safer

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from the adding-complexity dept

Wed, Mar 7th 2001 01:19pm -

Here’s a new idea to make online shopping safer. Every time you try to buy something online, the system will call your mobile phone and make you approve the purchase. How annoying will that one be? I guess if you’re really paranoid it might make sense, but for many people it’s probably just a nuisance.


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