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Re: Anonymous payment scheme

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NODE 7bd0b9ccRe: Anonymous payment scheme
At 09:45 AM 1/3/95 -0800, Hal wrote:
> ... As I wrote, banks are
>required to get SS#'s for depositers right now, and I wouldn't expect
>that to change any time soon.  If anything, the trend appears to be
>towards more tightening rather than less.  ...

Isn't that only a requirement on interst-bearing, or potentially 
interest-bearing, accounts?  

    --Paul J. Ste. Marie
      pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com
NODE 7a77e128Re: Anonymous payment scheme
> I've heard of that, but I thought it was only a redundancy check to check 
> for read errors in the swiping process.

   That's why they use checksums - I have some information about the 
VISA-net authorization network (which came from Phrack) and also some 
about the actual encoding of the card, if anyone cares.

-jon

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