As those checkin kiosks at airports show, if you have a crdit card number, you have the name of the person to whom the card was issued. By law and at great expense, issuers verify that the information on the application for a credit card represents a "real" person. By adding that name to the hash, you can pile on the privacy violation needed to share.
IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 12/14/2006 01:32:16 PM: > and if you had had the malicious > foresight to buy it under an assumed name, then you could freely share it on > a bulletin board. A credit card number has two special attributes: the > vendor can (and does anyway) verify it (unlike your name) and you are not > generally willing to share it. ----------------------------------------- The information contained in this communication (including any attachments hereto) is confidential and is intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed. The information may also constitute a legally privileged confidential communication. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination, copying, or unauthorized use of this information, or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. Thank you ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
