you misread my post. I stated

"I had no problems using my bank account to pay for a pay pal account and had no problems using my bank card for paying for registration sites. I had no problem at all disclosing information that should not have been disclosed.

but then I took a computer course in college. "

in that class I learned even paypal is not 100 percent secure and protecting your personal information. example... ever buy a new cell phone and throw the old one away, or donate it to a recycling place or have it lost.

just like any other website if you lose passwords and such they email or text you a new one. who ever has that old cell phone now has access to your paypal and emails. emails are not confidential, people who have email accounts have no idea how many hands have access to those accounts information and such...

theres also data breaches. ever watch the news pay pal has gone through data breaches where it left millions of their "customers" banking information and other personal information open and in the data breacher's hands. thats what data breaches are when you hear them on the news someone has gotten access to millions of peoples personal information due to security flaws, software glitches, back doors and hacking.

the point that I was making is that back then I thought it was ok to put my banking information online in paypal and other places to pay for DID specific websites.

after taking that class I realized how not safe it was to use my actual bank card online.

the point of my whole post was that just because DID specific websites say on their home page that they are secure, safe, reliable and all kinds of other nice words for it, if you read their privacy and terms of use you learn that the site does not guarantee your personal information is safe.

pay pal is no different by the way... example do you know every employee at pay pal face to face and guarantee that not one of their employees are not going to use the information about you stored? of course not right. therefore not actually secure just implied secure. is paypal un hack able ... no of course not. it may be hard to hack.

not to mention what happened to me.... a member of many DID specific forums worked for paypal, we all thought it was cool that this member could help us through the process until out personal banking information started appearing posted all over the net as their own. one member tried to get their money back but pay pal told them that the security of their pay pal account is their responsibility, that their terms of use clearly stated that pay pal could not be held responsible. and they were right. paypal recently updated their terms of use and policies but it still holds true that their company can not be prosecuted. they cant help it if your friends and family and strangers end up with your cell phone and email account that is attached to your pay pal account. they cant help it if some one breaches their company software and leaves millions of peoples banking information into the wrong hands.

bottom line you ......expect pay pal or any other pay online accounts to be secure but they are just like any other website out there. its the internet anything you put out there is not 100 percent secure, confidential, reliable.

when a cyber crimes instructor can find software flaws and find your banking information on a website then notify the company how they did it so that the company can issue "patches" to its users, you know nothing is secure.