Even less reason to restart business there
I went back to buying from Amazon and/or direct, because ebay was too stupid to block adding or to identify items in a basket which blocked credit card payment, which repeatedly pissed me off! In some cases I wouldn't even have cared if there was an included card surcharge for some items.
This latest security fail gives me even less reason to restart trade via ebay, because it is completely unacceptable, on any site, to list personal details or baskets on unencrypted pages, because of ID theft risk and the risk of request/response monitoring by other parties.
HTTP easily allows Man-in-the-Middle spying and injection of modified or weaponised requests/responses, and offers no protection against DNS spoofing, so HTTP must be replaced by HTTPS on all internet sites and some more local sites too, especially anything with a login!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
