On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, John David Galt wrote: > As the US banking system (and especially the bank clearinghouses controlled > by the Federal Reserve system) has gone electronic, all the banks I know of > have stopped bothering to verify the signatures on checks, and similarly > those on credit- and debit-card drafts. Getting them to start using digital > signatures would be a big improvement over the current wide-open situation. True, although a simpler (albeit less secure) measure would be to increase the length of the tracking number so that it's unguessable (it may already be that way - if so, never mind.) -Bram Cohen
