[153733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dear Linkedin,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Jun 11 14:53:57 2012
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:53:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120611183546.50220.qmail@joyce.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
> Although banks have different tradeoffs in risk management than you
> might like, they're not dumb. I expect they figured that the increased
> volume from not slowing down transactions and demanding more than makes
> up for whatever the increased fraud. This theory is reinforced by my
> observation that at my local supermarket, they don't even ask for the
> signature that they don't look at for purchases under $50.
Another point here is that *just asking for ID, and observing the patron's
mien when they give it to you* filters out 2 whole categories of low-hanging
fruit attackers.
Cheers,
-- jr 'each user discovers a new category of bugs' a
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
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