[153686] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear Linkedin,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Sun Jun 10 15:52:05 2012
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:51:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <F6EA438C-505E-4EB0-9B1D-4C941553B3E7@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> It is far preferable for the merchant to request ID and verify that the
> signature matches the ID _AND_ the picture in the ID matches the
> customer.
In the late 1990s I had a Visa card from (I think) Citibank that had my
picture embossed on the front of the card. I'm surprised this didn't
catch on with more card issuers. I see that Bank of America offers this
free of charge to their Visa clients, as do some US based credit unions.
That card was never lost or stolen, so I don't know if the photo
verification would fail as spectacularly as signatures do.
--lyndon
