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Re: mother's maiden names...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Fri Jul 15 14:07:23 2005
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Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:42:08 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, perry@piermont.com
In-Reply-To: <E1DsxL3-0004Vx-00@medusa01.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Peter Gutmann wrote:
> "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>
>
>>Why is it, then, that banks are not taking digital photographs of customers
>>when they open their accounts so that the manager's computer can pop up a
>>picture for him, which the bank has had in possession the entire time and
>>which I could not have forged?
>
>
> I don't know about photos specifically, but I know that signature imprints are
> often still moved around by laborious manual means because the background
> infrastructure to handle images doesn't exist.
My bank doesn't even bother to move them around, as I discovered when I
had a chequebook stolen and cheques for large sums forged, and honoured.
When I spoke to a person who had found the cheque in their store I asked
"is it my signature?" (yes, I am sufficiently absent-minded that I might
have written a large cheque and forgotten about it). Their response was
that they didn't know and had no way to find out. In the end they faxed
me a copy so I could check it myself.
Cheers,
Ben.
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