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The Saturday 2007-03-24 at 08:54 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Over here Visa is running TV advertisements about how joyous and
> wonderful your life will be if when you use their fingerprint readers
> to confirm your Visa card purchases. It's also brings the joyful
> spending of money by everyone around you to a screeching, grinding halt
> if you pay with cash.
I have stopped using credit cards.
Some one duplicated my late father credit card and stole us 1200 Eur in
two days, the maximum for the card. The bank refused to return the money
back and we had to fight for it for months, and we only got about 60% back
(we did not want to go to court).
They used some kind of reader piggybacked on the bank hole on the wall.
Agreed, biometric data would stop that kind of theft, probably (so would a
smart chip, instead of a magnetic strip; but as they are more expensive
banks don't use them). But I don't trust it. I trust the bad guys less,
they will invent something else to part us from our money.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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