Thank you for providing a different point of view, I didn't realize things were so complicated in the united states. In the EU there is a system called iDEAL which iirc is maintained by a collaboration of different banks and lets you pay for stuff online instantly and with zero fee. For sending money person-to-person, there are apps like tikkie that are just a thin wrapper around iDEAL. And in cases where these things don't work, you can just do a direct bank transfer by typing in the other person's IBAN in your bank's app/website. Slightly less convenient, but still nearly instant and zero fee.

I think it’s that PayPal was one of the firsts to provide a method for collecting credit card transactions electronically.

Before PayPal, you’d often have to visit a website, then call the phone number for the seller to collect payment.

eBay needed paypal because their sellers were often not businesses, just people yardsaling stuff online.

Coincidentally, I interned at a PayPal competitor in 1998 that went under during the bust. We had an electronic interface through MS access, but it was a still a human entering in the CC number into one of those dial pads on our side and then confirming the transaction. I’m sure with all of the concerns around security nowadays that you can understand why that was a terrible long term business model.

Canada has Interac, Europe has another standard, the US has another standard... I wish they would all just get together and have a single way to do it that works everywhere in the world...

In the meantime: https://www.paypal.com/ca/webapps/mpp/country-worldwide

in the US it's still not easy to send money to another private individual via the banking system

Bizarre

In Poland for online payments everyone uses Blik. It lets you generate six digit number in your banking app that you then give to the site you're making payment to. Your banking app then asks you if you want to make the payment with information about how much you pay and to whom. You accept and you're done, no card details were shared.

Given that banks' whole thing is transferring money you'd think they'd have got that sorted from the start but no.

That's just a different third party, though.

Many of the things that jQuery made easy back in the day are now pretty easy with pure js (Ajax calls, improved selectors, programmatic DOM manipulation, etc), and browser support for most JS features is way more standardized.

Granted, your pure JS is likely to be way more verbose to write, making it look more intimidating than jQuery.

That being said. jQuery is performant in modern browsers, and when being delivered compressed and minified is tiny, so if you want to use it, go for it. Anybody who criticizes you or tells you “you should use [x]” for your online store or website is a JS elitist.

jQuery is really only a “bad” choice for big interactive web apps, where frameworks that handle state and routing independently of the DOM are a much better choice.

How do you send money to friends or businesses with credit card? Is there a paypal card which has your login information printed on it?

I'd rather have my credit card information on a highly secure platform like Paypal than give it out to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that asks for it on the internet.

Even if PayPal is only "mostly" secure, I still get better security from having a smaller attack surface.

Which is weird because PayPal has owned Venmo for over a decade

Got bad news for you bud... Same bank.

Interesting, never heard of Wazuh until now. That looks closer to what Trellix allows.

The guy in charge of picking endpoint security products (whose team writes these rules) has tried Defender and found it lacking in comparison. Also, that link is about historical search for threat hunting, so I’m not sure if it’s the correct one.

Edit: I just saw the section about writing detections, but that seems to be more of a reactive than proactive approach. It still does the detection from searches.