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From: dave%westmark@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson)
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Subject: Re: Phone Credit Cards
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Date: 3 Feb 90 14:48:45 GMT
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In article <3438@accuvax.nwu.edu>, dwp@cci632.uucp (Dana Paxson) writes:
 ...
> On the subject of phone credit cards/calling cards:
 ...
> My input: Get the PINs off the cards.  If people can't deal with that,
> they can't deal with bank ATMs either.  Furthermore, don't put the
> PINs IN the cards (magnetically) either...


Note: Bank ATM cards, like telco cards, _do_ have your PIN
magnetically encoded on the card.  It is nice of the banks, however,
to have thought of not printing it in a human-readable place on the
card.


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