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Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 07:52:47 -0700
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: Speaking of smart cards... (fwd)
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>On 13 Jun 97 at 8:49, barbara beier wrote:
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>> On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Rich Loether wrote:
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>> > OK, you're looking at an announcement of a debit card. So what?
>
>> No, an ATM card is a debit card. What is different here is that a
>> third party, Visa, in this case, has been inserted as a middleman
>> between me and my bank.
>
>Not if you use it at a local money machine. Visa doesn't get
>involved unless you use it as you would a credit card.
>
>> > These cards can be a major convenience and the records were
>> > being kept all along anyway. You did know that all your checking
>> > account transactions were recorded, didn't you?
>
>> I knew that my bank keeps records of them and will sell them back to
>> me if I lose a statement. Are you saying ordinary checking
>> transactions under the federal limits were recorded, before the days
>> of these third party intrusions, by anyone else?
>
>No. No need for that. As long as your bank has been reading the
>account info from the strip at the bottom of the check the records
>have been online locally, and of course, for anyone 'authorized under
>law' to request them. Banks, and other conputer users, keep backup
>copies for a long time too.
>
>On the other hand, a FOAF once told me that there is an
>underground economy working too. ;-)
>
>> As for
>> convenience, I'm sure many people will see them that way; fine, as
>> long as their use doesn't become mandatory, either by regulation or,
>> more likely, by making use of cash such a hassle everybody will
>
>Yep.
>
>> "choose" to switch to smart cards.
>
>Again, a regular debit card is NOT a smart card. There's no reason
>another generation of them couldn't be real 'smart cards' but we're
>not there yet.
>
>> > MasterCard offers debit cards too.
>
>> I didn't know that. Are they like this -- something your bank gives
>> you in lieu of an ATM card -- or do you have to apply for them?
>
>I've just heard the advertisements. I assume they're just like the
>ones with the VISA logo.
>
>>... It is true
>> that the other smart cards, the ones with health care information,
>> drives license stuff, etc., are of concern.
>
>Yep.
>
>> What got the knee jerking here, however, was the term "world wide."
>> Debit cards usually work in local networks, like Cirrus, etc. All
>> of a sudden my little savings bank and I are going global here?
>
>Again, it depends on how you use the card. Grab a quick $50 from your
>neighborhood ATM and it's between you and your bank. Buy a souvenier
>from a vendor in Cairo with a VISA decal and you've gone worldwide.
>In between is, well, in between.
>
>> > But this is NOT a "smart card".
>
>> It's the data that's of concern, and how it's used, where it's
>> stored. ... I think a link may exist and if it
>> does, can be drawn. What do you think?
>
>There is definitely a potential for misuse, but you could say that
>about any technology. Rather than dwell on the card, and the
>potential misuse of the data, I'd sooner concentrate on some of the
>more easily demonstrated abuses of GovCo.
>
>> And, Rich, thanks very much for the cool (as opposed to heated)
>> comments -- your perspsective is sorely needed.
>
>You're welcome. I too get very tired of some of the tirades I read
>here.
>
>In Liberty,
>
>Rich
> Guns save lives - maybe yours.
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