Fingerprint recognition in schools

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:04:58 +0100


In article <48E9E23A.3070001@ernest.net>, Nicholas Bohm 
<nbohm@ernest.net> writes
>So cheque forgery is a form of identity fraud which almost always
>lumbers the bank, not the customer.  But with chip and pin, and online
>payments, the banks often get away with the line that it was your
>number/password, so it must have been you or you must have been careless
>in breach of the banking code, and you rather than the bank get lumbered.

And when I'm trying to remember if I have in fact paid that gas bill (or 
when I paid) it's *far* easier to flick through a book of cheque stubs 
than use any online banking facility I've ever seen. And the chequebook 
stubs don't magically rot away six months later (like many online 
banking records).
-- 
Roland Perry