Fingerprint recognition in schools

[Andrew Cormack]

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> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk [mailto:ukcrypto-
> admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of signup@bealoid.co.uk
> Sent: 06 October 2008 15:55
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: Re: Fingerprint recognition in schools
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> Quoting Nicholas Bohm <nbohm@ernest.net>:
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> > (This may start to change with Verified by Visa etc, though my
> > experience of that so far is that the model is badly broken:
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> Card fraud involves huge amounts of money.  The threats are
> various,
> from sophisticated criminal gangs to dozy louts who steal and sell
> cards.
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> Why do card providers and banks continue to make such a terrible
> mess
> of online systems?  It's not as if they don't have the money to
> spend
> on it.
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> When Nationwide had a data-loss they should have made serious
> changes.
>   The only things I noticed was a pages asking me to provide more
> answers to "security questions", because they'd be asking "security
> questions" more often in future.

Didn't you also get the leaflet on how to protect your own information?
The one that tells you to buy a shredder and make sure you shred
anything that contains your account details?

I'm still looking for a shredder big enough to put a stolen building
society laptop in ;-)

Andrew (who was nearly unimpressed enough to move BS, but now quite glad
he didn't!)
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