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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: ANYONE CAN FIND MY CREDIT CARD BALANCE & LAST PMT
Keywords: Credit Cards, Privacy
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.020427.26222@Think.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 91 02:04:27 GMT
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In article <24095@well.sf.ca.us> bparr@well.sf.ca.us (Barry L. Parr) writes:
>The AT&T Universal card offers an 800 number that will give you the 
>balance on your Visa, using your Zip code as a PIN.  This is the
>next best thing to no security at all.

That seems crazy to me.  The Universal card already has a secret PIN
associated with it, to be used when using it as a calling card.  So why
do they use a different, and easily-determined, PIN for balance
information?
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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