On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 03:31:22PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:26:52 -0500 > John Ioannidis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Citibank send me periodic reminders to switch to an electronic-only > > statement so that I am "better protected against identity theft". > > > The advice may actually be correct, though of course they have a major > financial incentive to persuade you to adopt the scheme even if it > isn't. >
Until they start electronically signing and timestamping their electronic statements, I would much rather have a paper trail from them than from my printer, so that when they (inevitably) screw up my account, it won't be just my printouts against their infallible computers. /ji --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
