He poked around and discovered that Amazon, eBay, Yahoo and Twitter were all using 512-bit keys, while banks like HSBC and US Bank, and payment provider PayPal were using only slightly stronger 768-bit keys.
We're also told that the 90 preorder number is low and the court documents are inaccurate because the company's relationship with PayPal was terminated over those issues with the terms of sale -- but the JooJoo website still lists PayPal as the only payment option.
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As Operation:Payback works through a target list that also includes PayPal and Twitter, its ranks will only grow.
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Not only can those who sign up for PayPal shop at many of their favorite home improvement, retail and entertainment spots, but they can even transfer money between friends and family securely.
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There were only 20, 000 brick and mortar outlets using PayPal last year.
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She wrote she hatched a plan to return the donations, then "sell" the toys that had already been purchased to the donors, only to be told that, too, violated PayPal rules.
In the last few years, there has been an ever-louder drumbeat of pundits saying the world is moving to eliminate cash, but the many businesses that have popped up in the hope this would come true--Bitbux, Digicash, CyberCash, Flooz, Netchex and PayPal, to name but a few--have found only limited success, or have died, or have been merged into other companies.
PayPal and Amazon have developed fraud detection tools that depend on massive datasets containing not only financial details for transactions, but IP addresses, browser information, and other technical data that will help these companies refine models to predict, identify, and prevent fraudulent activity.
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For the time being, Ms Turner said only US residents will be able to make investments on the site via eBay's paypal service or through a regular bank account.
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, for example, has argued since the most recent stock collapse that only dramatic new breakthroughs in energy and food production technologies will save the economy from an extended period of Malthusian zero-sum behavior.
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