Article on passwords in Wired News

Greg Rose ggr at qualcomm.com
Mon Jun 7 01:09:28 EDT 2004


At 21:04 2004-06-06 -0400, Adam Fields wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:06:20AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> > Citibank in India experimented with a special case of this a few years ago
> > - "online credit cards" - basically, a credit card number valid for one 
> use
> > only, which would be ideal for online purchasing.
> >
> > IIRC, the offering was withdrawn because there weren't enough takers.
>
>American Express still does this, although it's difficult to find and use.
>
>They call it "Private Payments".

Actually, they just discontinued it too, as of end of may.

Greg.


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