Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ulysses!hector!ekrell
From: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Here's a *BRILLIANT* password idea! (Sarcasm on)
Message-ID: <10900@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 29 Nov 88 19:39:54 GMT
References: <438@amanue.UUCP>
Sender: netnews@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com
Reply-To: ekrell@hector.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <438@amanue.UUCP> jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes:

>Well surprise:  This exact password system is ***IN USE***!!!  In (are you
>ready:) ***BANKS***!!!  I am not kidding.  Do you have an Automatic Teller
>Machine card?  What does your password look like?  Every time I've been given
>one of those things the password was just 4 digits!!!!!!!

I don't know about your bank, but mine will take away your card if you
enter the wrong PIN something like 3 or 5 times in a row (the ATM will
eat the card).
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

UUCP: {att,decvax,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell  Internet: ekrell@ulysses.att.com