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| A reminder that 1mdc-grams INHERENTLY USES a "click on this" 
| pin-number approach as a security supplement.

Are you sure that really does much for security?

Two Australian researchers took a closer look at a couple of on-line banks
that use such schemes, and managed to sniff PINs without much difficulty:

Tim Redhead and Dean Povey, "The Problems with Secure On-Line Banking",
Proceedings of the XVIIth annual South East Asia regional conferance
(SEARCC'98), July 1998,
<URL:http://security.dstc.edu.au/papers/searcc98-bank/>

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Vebjorn Ljosa

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