Spanking Review

ITC-Mag (www.itc-mag.com) is a message board and free personals ad site set up and sponsored by a UK-based spanking contact magazine producer of the same name. The site has two free areas of interest to UK spankophiles.

• A free message board for spankers/spankees
• A free spanking personal ads section

The spanking ads section has a lot of ads from professional female spankees and dominatrixes as well as from mainly male spankees. There is a lot of traffic to this site and between 20-40 ads a day are added to the personal ads section. The message board is not as useful as it is based on a free server and can spawn a lot of intrusive pop-up and pop-under advertisements if you don’t have anti-popup software intalled.

The site also has links to apage to buy an online downloadable copy of the ITC-Mag contact magazine. It is with this page I have the greatest difficulty and would recommend that YOU DO NOT BUY via this system.

The page collects personal information such as

• Payment method
• Cardholders name
• E-mail address
• Card no
• Start date
• Expiry date
• Issue No (switch)
• Security No. (last 3 digits on back of card by your signature)
• House No. (where the card is registered)
• Postcode (where the card is registered)

If this information was being collected and sent to a secure recognised payment collection service such as Paypal or WorldPay it would not be a problem. Unfortunately this site sends the information in clear text to an unsecure email server and does not even use the SSL secure socket layer encryption service to keep your credit card and identity details secure from being intercepted or released should the site-owner’s computer be hacked or infected with a trojan or virus. The information you have provided is enough for credit card identity fraud if misused.
We spankophiles have enough concerns about our identities becoming known without this site exacerbating the worry by not even attempting to use the built in security your web browser offer.

Because of this problem of security I have to give the site a rank of 20/100. It would have been 50/100 if the credit card security had been better and higher still if the popups had not been present on the message board.