Several years ago a magazine publisher came to where I worked at and wrote an article on the service that I worked for. It was a great experience, but I was caught by the term that the person conducting the interviews used to describe the magazine, B2B.
Chapter 5 was about e-commerce and the various models of it: B2C, B2B, B2G, etc... Before that time a few years ago I had never thought about the different types of businesses and the different types of transactions that happen between each. This text, in the context of e-commerce, gave a really good explanation of the differences in the delivery models.
Of all business transactions, e-commerce is certainly unique in the risk of security problems that could arise. Whereas most people would never think of using a knife or gun to hold somebody up and steal their wallet, many do not feel the same reservations when it comes to setting up a wireless sniffer to steal someone's bank information. Or a waiter or waitress to copy down the numbers off of a customer's credit card.
I believe in the inherent good of people and trust that most will do the right thing. But the convenience of e-commerce is proving to be very tempting to some.
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