Banking Follies

[Matt Crawford]

I once got email from my bank (which has since merged and then been  
merged into Chase) offering me some new service, and correctly  
identifying me as an account holder. However, I had never given them  
any email address!  I called them about this and they said it was "a  
computer error."

The error was cross-linking the Big Brother computer to the sales  
promotion computer, I guess.

Now that they are Chase, I drove up to the ATM in the bank's drive- 
through lanes and used it in the ordinary way and received, instead  
of my receipt, a yards-long hex dump of the ATM's memory.  That was  
fun.  I still have the souvenir, since the bank wasn't interested.

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