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eBay has pulled the pin on its controversial plan that would have forced all Australian users into using PayPal.

For Tracy Mooney, a married mother of three in the US, the decision to abandon cyber-sense and invite e-mail spam into her life for a month by participating in a McAfee experiment was a bit of a lark.

Meet the man who could be your company's de facto customer service representative - a man you have never met and certainly isn't on your payroll. Thor Muller is founder and CEO of Satisfaction Unlimited, which runs an online community where customers air complaints about companies like Comcast, Apple, United Airlines, Whole Foods, Washington Mutual, Snapfish and Expedia to fellow customers and to the Internet at large.

Controversial changes to payment methods on the online auction site eBay which would require all bidders and sellers to solely use [[ArtId: 677846353|Paypal|new]] as a payment method have been delayed indefinitely until the review process with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is complete.

Microsoft warned us well over a year ago that XP will Die Die Die, at least on new computers, by the end of June, 2008. Petitions and prayers notwithstanding, XP has a firm date with Boot Hill. RIP, XP.

EBay has unveiled expanded protections for those buyers and sellers in its marketplace who complete transactions using the company's PayPal online payment service.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a draft notice proposing to revoke a notification lodged by eBay in April, regarding its plan to lock users into paying for purchases through its fee-based PayPal service.

The Web sites of three of the security industry's best-known companies include security flaws that could be used to launch scams against customers, according to a new report.

Microsoft has made an unspecified agreement with a payment processing company, in what could be another step toward establishing its own online payment system.

Unexpectedly high shipping fees are the No. 1 reason consumers abandon their online purchases, according to a survey conducted for PayPal by research company comScore Inc.

In January, Kevin Kelly wrote an essay entitled "Better Than Free" that explained which concepts held value on the Internet. This generated a lot of interest, mostly around the question of how best to make money out of these concepts. As a career security guy, I found myself wondering how on earth my field will respond -- how does security need to adapt to support business models based on these values? When we're used to locking everything down, how do we respond when people start calling for openness?