Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Rich Zellich Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Credit Cards Message-ID: <3470@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 2 Feb 90 14:17:45 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 72, message 3 of 16 Dana Paxson wants to get the PIN off the calling card, for security reasons. It seems to me, that for the great unwashed, who have their real telephone number (as opposed to a billing-only made-up number, as some of the Telecom subscribers do), that the card is the only thing they get that has the PIN. What they really need to do for these people is take their name and phone number off the card, leaving just the corporate name/logo and the PIN - hopefully these people can remember their own name and number. Since there would then be more room on the front of the card, the calling instructions could be put on the front, in larger type than what is on the back (or the litle card that originally came with my first AT&T calling card). If someone finds a PIN-only card, they would have no way of knowing what number it belonged to, and with no name couldn't look it up, either. If a purse or wallet is stolen, the name would be known, but so many people put their various PINs on a slip of paper in their wallet somewhere anyway, that it probably wouldn't matter.