[68025] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Drift net fishing," GAK, FBI, and NSA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy M. Silvernail)
Mon Oct 14 21:06:36 1996
To: unicorn@schloss.li (Black Unicorn)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: roy@sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail)
Reply-To: roy@scytale.com
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 19:05:32 CST
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.961014075619.7731B-100000@polaris>
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In list.cypherpunks, unicorn@schloss.li writes:
> Any idea what the basis for refusing "debit" cards is?
None whatsoever.
> I've heard that one concern is that debit cards will often not hold a high
> enough balance to be used as a security deposit.
> How this applies in terms of rental cars is a bit beyond me.
Me, either. Perhaps this rental agency has had a rash of chargebacks?
The strange part is, when the car gets rented they don't run a charge
authorization, just check if the card's valid. (if they did run a
validation, mine would have bounced because the Visa card they would
accept was quite full)
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Roy M. Silvernail [ ] roy@scytale.com
DNRC Minister Plenipotentiary of All Things Confusing, Software Division
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