From the Yahoo! story:

Overall, fraud is estimated to occur in 11 percent of all online transactions, said Paul Fichtman, president and CEO of the Internet Fraud Council.

That's a lot of fraud. It's sad that this still happens. I referred to this in Lesson 3 of my CGI course when I mentioned going to Altavista and typing in type=hidden name=price as the query parameter. Once you see how common it is, you'll be dismayed. It's been around for a long time. Sigh.

Incidentally, for those who are wondering why I haven't updated the course in a while, I'm stuck in Amsterdam for a bit and not using Perl. I hope to be able to return to Perl (and the course) in about two months or so.

Cheers,
Ovid

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