Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:47 PM 3/20/2007, you wrote: >This reminds me of a few years back when I attended a class on >information security taught by one of this countries intelligence >agencies. They had worked with several of the banking institutuions >on how to protect information, and devised a test, where they put >signs up at each of the banks automated banking machines telling the >customers to put their teller receipts in a basket next to the teller >machines. They figured that 10 to 20% would do this. What they found >was that over 85% of the customers actually dropped their receipts in >the basket! the reciepts have information about your account on them >and could give someone information about you. They were surprised >that such a large percentage would actually do this. The positive >thing out of this is that the banking institutions did change how and >what information is put on the receipts after that. People are very >gullable, unfortunately, along with careless aobut protecting >information about themselves. Gene The Banks did not make this change. It was mandated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!