Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Gentoo Begs for Cash Like a Meth Addict at A Gas Station Date: 26 Jul 2025 06:47:08 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <105v9tc$2ksi7$1@paganini.bofh.team> <105vj39$2ksi7$2@paganini.bofh.team> <688430a0@news.ausics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net BbOEYZrSuOPJrTs1TzaoxQzkKDOSRhBPxru27rH3prcL4V/asA Cancel-Lock: sha1:DISjghcsHzlx99cdZydbU7Z533s= sha256:nrMCE9oY2PL1ZLsm1mgaPlCT87Zp5Wi0IfAkhdoKi0w= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:69929 On Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:51:00 -0400, c186282 wrote: > There USED to be a US bank that offered "instant/limited" > fake credit card numbers. You could specify how much it was worth, > how long it'd be good. It was very useful for online shopping, esp > back when "security" was a sort of alien concept. I was trying to think of which one it was. It was a good idea. I haven't had a problem with PayPal and use it on sites I'm not familiar with. My Usenet provider is in Berlin and for a while they were using a European PayPal analog called Click'N'Buy. That would invariably get flagged by MasterCard even though it's only 10 Euros a year. They do PayPal now.