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Re: Techdirect Security Exposure?

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From: Bob Goddard
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:00
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2000 John Underwood wrote;
>
>I can't see it as a reason for not using a credit card, merely for not
>using a bad supplier. The same would apply to using a credit card in any
>restaurant because the waiters in some have misused customers' cards, or
>not using a credit card for mail order by telephone because some mail
>order suppliers have been know to misuse card information.
>
>While you are at it, don't put your cash card into a machine, they have
>been known to misuse the number and cheques can be forged so I wouldn't
>use those. You could use cash but sometimes that turns out to be a
>forgery.
>
>You could use barter, but then you'd have to trust the person you were
>exchanging with - which brings us back to square one.

And don't use banks; one of them once debited my account with two
bounced cheques drawn by someone with a similar name to mine (there was
hell to pay).

(Bob
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From: Bob Goddard <news001@godwit.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Techdirect Security Exposure?
Date: 2000/03/23
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