NODE 7a7e7ba4Re: USA Today on Fear of Credit Cards over Net
jgrubs@left.webcasters.com (Jim Grubs (W8GRT))Thu, 21 Sep 95 07:18:16 PDT
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:
>
> Re: The risk of credit cards.
>
> I suppose that indeed there are large risks elsewhere in the credit
> card system. However, I think that the credit card system itself is
> stupid and insecure and ought to be scrapped -- sending around account
> numbers as magic keys to get payment is a stupid move. Its not
> suprising how large credit card fraud is.
Hence the fast growing popularity of those cash cards.
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