Confused by Visa

[dvae]

I've got two different Visa cards by two different financial institutions. They both use 'Verified by Visa' which makes online shopping 'safer' by getting you type a password into an iframe embedded into a webpage that you are not even sure uses SSL

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[fete_pindon]

just click the not-so-obvious sign up later link on the verified by visa pages. i've never signed up for it yet.

it's fucking rubbish.

[dvae]

It was mandatory for me.

More reasons why it's crap here: http://www.links.org/?p=591