No online or retail purchase is totally immune from compromising a credit card. The vectors for fraud exist in both methods. I think that the majority of us realize that it's only a matter of time before some bit of our credit data is compromised somewhere.
The funny thing is, is that years ago I switched from making purchases in cash in department stores to putting them on a credit card because in one store I gave the sales clerk a twenty dollar bill for a purchase, she gave me change for a ten and then swore that I had only given her a ten dollar bill. I never trusted a sales clerk in that store again because of that experience.
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