On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:01:43 +0200, andrel wrote:

> Sure, but in most cases when multiple cards are misused you can trace it
> back to one or more stores if that happens. With e-mail it can happen
> anywhere. I guess that whatever I write to these guys in NZ my mail will
> pass through the US at some point and at least their security service
> will scan it for tell tale words. When I'd fly to the US they also want
> my recent credit card info, so I assume they also filter those numbers
> out from e-mails that happen to pass through their territory. Actually
> they would do that even for e-mails that never reach the US. And so
> would the dutch and the sovjet intelligence services.

Huh?  Our border folks ask for *credit card info* upon entry to the US?  
That's news to me....But I always go through the "citizens" line, so I'm 
not as familiar with what the process is for non-citizens.

But it's not so much about the security services - it's about the thieves 
who use the information for their own ends.

Jim

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