what do i know about security anyway.

1) The online order form at Mr. Chen's is NOT secure. No https, no little padlock in the bottom corner of your screen. Plus, they're happy to take orders over the phone. Don't put your credit card number on the internets! Call instead. Hot, delicious fried veggie dumplings can be yours. Mmmm, fraud-proof deliciousness.

2) Bank of America. Fucking Bank of America, man. First MBNA ate up Wachovia. Then the resulting hybrid got chomped by Bank of America, creating a nigh unstoppable credit-card behemoth that engages in three separate levels of security when you try to pay your bill online. Which means, first, that you have to remember not one but two separate random codes, one a "passcode" and one a "SiteKey ID," and if you forget either you have to actually call them to reset it. Which, i suppose, is reassuring if you've been identity-thieved. But if you're me, and you've called them eight times to change your billing address and have still not received a single paper bill in the mail since SEPTEMBER, it just makes you want to slam your laptop down in disgust and vow never, ever to bank with Fucking Bank of America at any time, for any reason, even if you do have a friend who works there giving out sweet mortgage deals and even if they do have that super cool "round up" deal where your change automatically goes into your savings account and they match it and ... fuck you, Bank of America, is what i'm saying.