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In article <1992Sep15.185901.15924@relay.nswc.navy.mil> 
wcollin@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Collins - E41) writes: 

> [...] [A] keypad for entering PIN like identification numbers.  You
> press a start button which randomly enumerates the keypad with a
> different sequence [...] You also have to be pretty much dirrectly
> in front of the keypad to view the numbers.

Heck, they have one of these guarding the door to the main machine
room (dinosaur pen) at SUNY-Binghamton where I went for undergrad.

Last year, after instrument thefts, they got one for the musical
instrument room!

I can't imagine that these cost too much, they're really simple!

But remember: Banking losses due to fraud are dwarfed by banking
losses due to non-payment of debts.  Why should a bank spend ten
gazillion dollars to stop a million a year in thefts from ATMs, when
they could spend a mere zillion dollars on a good commercial loan
officer and get millions more?

(Note that a gazillion is 'much more than a zillion'.)


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