[cgbg]

Waiters and waitress have been know to pass along a credit card number to a friend for illegal purchases.

Exactly--they are mostly younger people who are paid terrible wages and are dependent on tips.

It is just too easy for them to do this and get a kickback on the proceeds.

I _never_ use a credit card in a restaurant (when you are handing the card to a waiter/waitress) for this reason. I have been in groups where everyone pays by credit card at a restaurant except for me.

Oh, well, I am just a paranoid old man. :-)

[FLT-bird]

I insist on using cash in those situations too.

AND

I refuse to do online banking. Go ahead and hack my computer. Dig around in there. You won’t find a bank account password no matter how hard you look. There isn’t one. There never will be.

Cash will always exist. There will always be a demand for it. If one country refuses to issue it, people will use other country’s currency, or gold or silver or bitcoins or something. I am unwilling to hand over total power over my financial transactions to any government.