On Friday 23 March 2007 19:59, Carlos E. R. wrote: > Credit cards. I heard some thugs already cut fingers to activate some > stolen cards. Might be an urban legend, tough.
1) It is the case where credit card owner will not complain about stolen card, and wouldn't care for finger. I can imagine only one case where this is possible and in that case avoiding fingerprint technology would not change anything, because mischief already did what he intended and taking finger instead of forcing person to use it is the only way. 2) Is there any bank that is asking for such identification for credit cards? There will be no so much problems with stolen identities if they would. 3) The only case where banks are asking for fingerprint is when you cash paycheck in a employers brank, not yours. Other will refuse to cash it anyway. So how to use finger in the middle of the bank? What is amusing are not creators of urban legend, but people that believe in. Telling stories is what makes our lives not so boring, but believing each story ... BTW, this one is invented by folk that would have more problems to steal accounts if access would be protected with easy to apply and hard to guess technology, instead of "passwords". -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
