thoughts on one time pads
Anne & Lynn Wheeler
lynn at garlic.com
Sat Jan 28 17:29:22 EST 2006
John Denker wrote:
> That indicates a gross lack of tamper-evident packaging, as discussed
> above. The store should never have activated a card that came from a
> package that had been tampered with.
if you have seen many of the gift cards in racks at grocery stores ...
they can be skimmed w/o any tampering needed (many with no packaging at
all). it might be better that they were shipped in some sort of
packaging that would require tampering in order to skim.
i think that the conventional wisdom was that the cards were (nearly)
worthless until activated (and so why would anybody bother with a
worthless card).
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