[AGL] Safari dont work, Internet Explorer does <- false statement

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Michele,

Seeing as you have a Mac, i recommend you ask
Dave Moriaty about this. My recommendations
were for PCs.

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michele mason" <yaya.m at earthlink.net>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s" 
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [AGL] Safari dont work,Internet Explorer does <- false 
statement


Thanks for the info—I'm adding all my cards to my bank site—much faster
to pay. As you may see, Wayne Smith invited me to gmail. its
m11.mason at gmail.com (I think) and I still need to learn how to use it.
Didn't have patience to wait out the tutorial. Will want to add my
address book for 1 thing, should be easy?  mm

On Nov 14, 2006, at 4:31 PM, Michael Eisenstadt wrote:


> Michele,

>

> We have one of our credit cards automatically

> get paid out of the balance in a checking account. This

> saves having to mail checks to individual companies.

> We also have a debit card should we have the good

> luck to travel to a foreign country and need to get

> some local currency. Using a credit card to do this

> will accrue an interest charge starting from the date

> of the transaction. Debit cards, on the other hand,

> have no interest charge since it is your own funds

> that you are tapping. You will be paying 2% of

> the sum for the bank to switch your dollars to

> euros..

>

> Just be sure you check the statements every

> month so that you know that everything is kosher.

> You have 90 days to challenge a credit card charge.

>

> What do you mean go back to paper? Your

> money is whizzing around digitally as it is but your

> bank will send you a paper statement so you

> can ikeep track.

>

> The point is to spend it all and have the check

> for your funeral bounce.

>

> The two Internet banks I have accessed required

> Internet Explorer; Firefox wouldnt work. I

> assumed that all banks were doing that but

> as Charlie and others are pointing out it just

> ain't so. Or ain't so anymore. My experience

> dates from when Firefox was just introduced

> a couple of years ago.

>

> Mike

>

> ---- Original Message -----

> From: "michele mason" <yaya.m at earthlink.net>

> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

> <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:46 PM

> Subject: Re: [AGL] Safari dont work, Internet Explorer does

>

>

> Foxfire is working just fine. All my bank pages are encrypted. Do you

> recommend I go back to paper?—I'm told that more is stolen from paper

> by my bank and also Foxfire which tells me when/or not encptd. When I

> go for medical stuff, my laptop will go too. Is that just as scary? Do

> you recomend paying each acct at their site?  Tell me wise one,  mm

>

> On Nov 14, 2006, at 1:51 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:

>

>> What you mean by "key board recording"?  An audio record?  whoa.

>>

>> Plez explain.

>>

>> wayne

>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Eisenstadt"

>> <michaele at ando.pair.com>

>> To: <austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:27 AM

>> Subject: [AGL] Safari dont work, Internet Explorer does

>>

>>

>>> Michele,

>>> On PCs, it is the same. Firefox wont work, but Internet Explorer

>>> will. As for bank biz in the new Internet age, YMMV. Depends on how

>>> strong your nerves are.

>>> As for the security of your password, in theory every

>>> time you type it in, a key tracking program might be

>>> secretly recording it. Assuming that your home computer

>>> is being secretly plumbed without your knowledge. What

>>> is your current conspiracy index?

>>> As for doing bank biz on someone else's computer whilst you be on the

>>> road, a keyboard recording

>>> of your password would have it, the password,

>>> and your user name, so they could take all your funds

>>> by making a payment to some other bank account.

>>> Mike

>>

>