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reading PINs in "secure" mailers without opening them
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Aug 26 17:26:27 2005
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:20:00 -0400
Often, banks send people PINs for their accounts by printing them on
tamper "secure" mailers. Some folks at Cambridge have discovered that
it is easy to read the PINs without opening the seals...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4183330.stm
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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