In what amounts to perhaps the most egregious oversight in history, Visa failed to announce a compromise of outrageous proportions at the beginning of this year. In fact, almost 1.3 billion Visa credit cards have been exposed to over 45 trillion (45,000,000,000) people worldwide in the twelve months of 2004. Unbelievable. Information here.

(Left unexplained is the ten-thousand-fold increase in the world’s population).