>Why does the clerk at Blockbuster want to see your driver's license? >Because his management has been told, by their bank, that if they do >not attempt to verify the identity of credit card users they will >risk their business relationship with the bank.
It's been my impression that the way you're supposed to verify the ID of a credit card user is by checking the signature. I've heard of banks telling businesses not to demand separate ID. On the other hand, I can easily believe that Blockbuster came up with the ID idea all by themselves. >A system in which the credit card was replaced by a small, calculator >style token with a smartcard style connector could effectively >eliminate most of the in person and over the net fraud we experience, I was in England last week where I noticed that the banks are switching all UK credit cards to chip+pin technology. We'll see. For that matter, French cards have all been chip+pin for years. Any idea what their fraud rates are like? The French card machines will do magstripe with a signature, but it's mostly us foreigners who need it. R's, John --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]