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From: brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: Info when using plastic - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 14-Sep-83 10:57:12 EDT
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Actually, rather than all the Driver's license, SSN (worthless as id),
and other nonsense, would simply be to have a photograph on the card.

You could send a photo in when you apply for the card, or as part of
some confirmation process.  A careful analysis of the costs would have
to be made, but it might be cheaper than the loss due to stolen cards.

Yes, its a hassle.  Sending in a photo would be nicer than having the
bank take yours, but both would be acceptable alternatives.

Speaking of photos: recently our university started issuing photo id
cards for the students.  good idea, except ---- where are the other
copies of the photos going?  It certainly makes it easier for the police
spys (you know, the ones with the Nikon & long lens, leisure suit, white
socks, and flat feet).  They're the ones taking pictures at the
homecoming ralley to see who is smoking what and carrying what signs.
(The sixties aren't dead, they're just living on in the minds of
professional paranoids).

Anyway, photos on credit cards (assuming merchants even looked! - how
many check your signature?) might lessen the loss - perhaps its worth
considering.

P.S. - Temporary farewell to the net - the gods of policy here have decreed
changes, and its bye-bye time until later. Sigh.

-- 
   Brian Kantor, UCSD.  {philabs,ucbvax} !sdcsvax!brian
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