reading PINs in "secure" mailers without opening them

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Fri Aug 26 17:20:00 EDT 2005


Often, banks send people PINs for their accounts by printing them on
tamper "secure" mailers. Some folks at Cambridge have discovered that
it is easy to read the PINs without opening the seals...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4183330.stm

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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com

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