Check this out! KABC in Los Angeles did a feature on SmartSwipe. Enjoy!

Before we get into trick swiping and the pro swipers circuit, let's talk about the basics of swiping and swiping safety.

NetSecure's SmartSwipe device - a home credit card reader for safe online shopping - won the ACT award for Canadian Innovation. The award was presented to NetSecure Technologies at an awards luncheon held during Cardware '09.

The Canadian Innovation Award tops off an already exciting year in which the SmartSwipe was named to PC World's list of Ten Cool New Mobile Gadgets, and its debut on dell.ca

According to a study from Affinion Security Center, women pay more for identity theft.

61% of men get away with losing no money, but only 53% of women have the same fortune. And 17% of women have paid over $1,000.00 due to identity theft, while only 10% of men have.

From June 5th to 11th SmartSwipe will be on sale for only $59.95 on the Dell.ca site.

This is by far the cheapest SmartSwipe has ever been sold for, and it will not be this cheap again for a long time. If you are thinking of buying one (why woudn't you be?) then now is the time to buy.

Is it just me or is this shocking? A company that has been at the forefront of promoting identity theft awareness (and profiting from it) for many years is effectively being shut down. They have been lauded and made famous by the act of posting the CEO's social security number on their website. That is not the problem, however.

A California Judge ruled the whole idea of their business is illegal. LifeLock would place fraud alerts on their customers credit profiles if there was suspicious activity so the customer didn't have to do it themselves. LifeLock was accused of trying to "game the system" by one of the three big credit reporting bureaus, Experian. The service cost consumers $120 a year.

Dynamic SSL is an endpoint security technology that takes the end user's vulnerable computer out of the equation. That means your computer doesn't have any knowledge of the information being transferred. Therefore, it is the ideal way for sensitive information to be transferred. In its current formation SmartSwipe uses Dynamic SSL to transfer credit card information from an online shopper to the merchant site. Keyloggers, Spyware, memory sniffers and more are no longer able to retrieve credit card data.

The security aspect of SmartSwipe is great, but what really gets me excited is its compatibility. SmartSwipe can be used on almost all shopping sites.