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From: andersa@kuling.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: ATM security (was Re: DES info wanted)
Message-ID: <294@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-May-87 13:18:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 12 13:18:17 1987
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Reply-To: andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson)
Organization: Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <1060@aecom.YU.EDU> mkaplan@aecom.YU.EDU (Marc Kaplan) writes:
>	BTW, I assume that the ATMs will temporarily invalidate a card if
>a few hundred bad attempts are made to remove money.  At least, thats how
>I would do it.

If you make three (or maybe four) failing attempts in a row with the same
card at a Swedish ATM, the machine will swallow the card and physically
deface it (>burp!<), and you'll have to contact your bank to get a new one.
-- 
Anders Andersson, Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 183170
UUCP: andersa@kuling.UUCP (...!{seismo,mcvax}!enea!kuling!andersa)