I trust paypal. Recently eBay has been trying to force people to use visa directly and some functionality when using paypal (could not set delivery address for a gift) has been missing. I tell you one thing. I will stop using eBay before I stop using Paypal.
by constantly teaching myself new things in technology including new languages, learning new assembly languages, working with small micro controllers like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Cubie Board. Keeping my old language skills by writing code. I am not a coder I do security right now. I read incessantly. I have been relearning electronics and I am building a lot of hardware projects that require software so I get to implement both in the project. I am not very young and I have been working with unix, the net and security a long time. I used to be a hardware engineer that fell in love with unix and left hardware behind. That is how I am preparing because I am a hacker. That means I am prepared.