[SATLUG] OFF TOPIC: "Say No to Photo-ID" for Cred Card purchases...

[Brian Lewis]

Ack sorry I selected reply all LOL

Thanks,
Brian
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On Feb 1, 2008, at 1:11, Tom Weeks <tweeksjunk2 at theweeks.org> wrote:

> Please take future replies off list...
>
> On Thursday 31 January 2008 21:48:48 Brian Lewis wrote:
> [...]
>> On the note of privacy and freedom, your free to refuse to show your
>> I'd just as any company or gender is free to refuse you service for  
>> if
>> you don't abide by their rules.
>
> Actually Brian.. you're wrong.  Their use of the Visa/MC system is a  
> privilege
> that Visa/MC can refuse for breaking THEIR rules.  And it's clearly  
> stated on
> both Visa and MC's sites that it's illegal for vendors to require  
> secondary
> identification other than the card.
>
>> Freedom is a door that swings both
>> ways :)
>
> Don't let it hit you in the a** on the way out Brian. ;)
>
>
> On Thursday 31 January 2008 "John Chalinder" wrote:
>> I, too, write "Check photo ID' in the signature space. The last thing
>> I need is some thief trying to steal my ID by simply forging my sig.
>
> And that's YOUR right to delegate authentication authority.  What  
> I'm saying
> is that vendors are taking that right away from you by them  
> requiring it
> without your permission.
>
> I'll answer other realted discussions off list (since this is off  
> topic, and I
> did not intend to start a list storm here).
>
> Tweeks