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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: reading bank cards
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Date: Fri, 15-May-87 15:17:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 15 15:17:41 1987
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> Imagine my horror (along with others in our lab group) when they demonstrated
> thier ability to read our account and PIN numbers directly off our cards !
> 
> I certainly learned a lesson from this and as well as keeping my plastic
> very safe now I also check my bank statements *very* carefully !

Recently I saw in a local grocery a free-coupon-dispensing machine.  You
activated it by inserting one of your bank cards.  Can you blame me for
being suspicious?


	"One draws a circle, beginning anywhere."

					--Charles Fort
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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