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[–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, when you give them a number on the phone, the guy at the other end is just going to be putting the number in the same place the website does.

When you pay in-store with a credit card, probably same thing.

EDIT: Well, unless, for the last case, one's using a cryptographic-signature-based mechanism, like the smartcard chip or wireless authentication. But if it's a magstrip or someone punching numbers in...

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