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Re: mother's maiden names...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Thu Jul 14 09:40:16 2005
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From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: "R.A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>,
cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:07:59 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:10:21 -0400
In message <p062309b5befafab0f1f0@[68.167.57.91]>, "R.A. Hettinga" writes:
>At 12:26 PM -0400 7/13/05, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>>Why do banks not collect simple biometric information like photographs
>>of their customers yet?
>
>Some do.
>
>Cambridge Trust puts your picture on the back of your VISA card, for
>instance. They have for more than a decade, maybe even two.
>
One New York bank -- long since absorbed into some megabank -- did the
same thing about 30 years ago. They gave up -- it was expensive then,
and may not have solved any real problems. (Possibly, it simply didn't
fit their real purpose of attracting more customers.)
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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