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Re: Debit card fraud in Canada
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Mon Dec 13 22:39:07 1999
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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:56:50 -0800
To: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
From: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>
Cc: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>,
Steve Reid <sreid@sea-to-sky.net>, cryptography@c2.net
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At 10:30 PM 12/13/99 +0000, Ben Laurie wrote:
>David Honig wrote:
>>
>Sure. But wouldn't you like to keep your thumbs?
>
Yes, and my eyeballs, etc. Mere discussion does not
imply endorsement.
A PIN doesn't help: a thug will drag you to the ATM
and harm you if you give the wrong PIN.
And probably some physicalhacker would figure out how
to develop a mold from a print...
If prints are you, and you are your prints, you would
wear gloves in public, for fear of touching a sensor.
Maybe Michael Jackson is a biometric authentication freak.
