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Re: thoughts on one time pads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Tue Jan 31 11:10:27 2006
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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:29:22 -0700
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
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Cc: John Denker <jsd@av8n.com>, Dave Howe <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
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John Denker wrote:
> That indicates a gross lack of tamper-evident packaging, as discussed
> above. The store should never have activated a card that came from a
> package that had been tampered with.
if you have seen many of the gift cards in racks at grocery stores ...
they can be skimmed w/o any tampering needed (many with no packaging at
all). it might be better that they were shipped in some sort of
packaging that would require tampering in order to skim.
i think that the conventional wisdom was that the cards were (nearly)
worthless until activated (and so why would anybody bother with a
worthless card).
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