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Article #3598Re: ATM security (was Re: DES info wanted)
From: howellg
Date: Wed, 20 May 1987 09:50
Date: Wed, 20 May 1987 09:50
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In article <1071@aecom.YU.EDU> mkaplan@aecom.YU.EDU (Marc Kaplan) writes: >In article <294@kuling.UUCP>, andersa@kuling.UUCP (Anders Andersson) writes: >> In article <1060@aecom.YU.EDU> mkaplan@aecom.YU.EDU (Marc Kaplan) writes: >> > BTW, I assume that the ATMs will temporarily invalidate a card if >> >> If you make three (or maybe four) failing attempts in a row with the same > > While I admit a few hundred is too much, three or four is too little. In the UK it needs 3 successive bad attempts for the card to be invalidated. If you make 2 then get it right on the third you are OK. Usually the ATM card is also a cheque guarantee card so you do get the card back but the MS is erased and the card can only be used to guarantee cheques. Gareth.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ll-xn!husc6!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!idec!howellg From: howellg@idec.UUCP Newsgroups: sci.crypt Subject: Re: ATM security (was Re: DES info wanted) Message-ID: <809@idec.stc.co.uk> Date: Wed, 20-May-87 05:50:05 EDT Article-I.D.: idec.809 Posted: Wed May 20 05:50:05 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 08:31:59 EDT References: <2071@hoptoad.uucp> <599@umnd-cs.D.UMN.EDU> <5747@eddie.MIT.EDU> <294@kuling.UUCP> <1071@aecom.YU.EDU> Sender: root@idec.stc.co.uk Reply-To: howellg@idec.stc.co.uk (Gareth Howell) Organization: ICL Network Systems, Stevenage, UK Lines: 15