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Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 04:15:35 GMT
From: Mike Morris <morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
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Subject: Re: AT&T Card PIN Disclosed
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jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes: (edited...)

>   Compare this with my bank's Phone Access Line PIN number*. No one
> knows what my PAL/PIN is except the computer and it won't tell anyone.
> They send you the PIN in a sealed envelope (you know, the type that
> has carbon paper inside and is printed in one go through a dot matrix
> printer and has the tear ends on it).

I have accounts at three banks.  Two are like his, you can't pick your
PIN.  The third allows you to.  I assume it depends on who wrote the
system.


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