[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) writes: > "Perry E. Metzger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Why is it, then, that banks are not taking digital photographs of customers >>when they open their accounts so that the manager's computer can pop up a >>picture for him, which the bank has had in possession the entire time and >>which I could not have forged? > > I don't know about photos specifically, but I know that signature > imprints are often still moved around by laborious manual means > because the background infrastructure to handle images doesn't > exist. Most banks are still using 3270-style interfaces, even if > they have a screen-scraped GUI front-end.
That's true. Several banks I deal with in New York use displays that are disturbingly 3270-like. That brings up another thing that has always tickled the back of my mind -- I have never actually had a professional opportunity to analyze any of the systems used by tellers in commercial banks, and I always wonder at what is securing the links between small branches and HQ, and how bad the protection of the user passwords etc. might be... > So using images (of any kind) isn't just a case of making an executive > decision to do so, it would involve a massive, end-to-end infrastructure > upgrade to implement. Yah, true enough -- which also impedes things like letting branch managers to look at check images, signatures, etc. Groan... Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]