signatures too easy to forge..?

[ColJack]

I watched Iron Man 2 earlier ( yes, sad I know.. ) and in that he uses his thumb print on a legal document rather than a signature..
surely this is a great idea and one that I'm surprised they haven't rolled out for signing every day stuff like cheques and deeds etc..

you would have to pick which finger or thumb to use to "sign" with so that even under duress of say someone holding a gun to your head you could just use the wrong finger and they wouldn't know..

using 2 fingers, one with regular black or blue ink and one with UV ink would ensure that they couldn't just photocopy your print from another document etc..

 

[foxhole]

Would be very expensive for the kit to check the validity of the print, if you don't know your right hand from your left very confusing

 

[snico]

would'nt that be quite expensive to implement though....and i dont fancy walking around the shops with a blue or black thumb everytime I go shopping

 

[joinerjohn]

Retinal scanners are the way to go. Plus you could have a free eye test everytime you paid for something.

 

[ColJack]

a simple wet wipe should suffice, and I'm not advocating it for general shopping ( unless you pay for everything with a cheque? ) I was thinking for the more major things like buying a car or a house etc..

 

[snico]

Could be used for things like employment contracts maybe, property deeds, that sort of thing

 

[Lincsbodger]

Biometric thumbprint credit cards were proposed to the credit card industry twenty years ago, they will not spend the money to implement it. They only did Chip and Pin because the level of Credit Card Fraud had reached embarrassing proportions, and it was the cheapest option.

More than any other industry the credit card industry is driven by profit. You only have credit cards in the first place because it became blindingly obvious 30 years ago there was a fortune to be made selling porn on the internet and they had to invent a way of paying for stuff online if they wanted to cream off a cut.

 

[sooey]

You only have credit cards in the first place because it became blindingly obvious 30 years ago there was a fortune to be made selling porn on the internet and they had to invent a way of paying for stuff online if they wanted to cream off a cut.

Absolute balderdash.

 

[Lincsbodger]

You only have credit cards in the first place because it became blindingly obvious 30 years ago there was a fortune to be made selling porn on the internet and they had to invent a way of paying for stuff online if they wanted to cream off a cut.

Absolute balderdash.

another non contribution. You have any evidence or counter arguments, or was you just going to post your usual unjustified unexplained unproven unverified unreasoned dismissal, contributing nothing to the debate ?

 

[sooey]

You only have credit cards in the first place because it became blindingly obvious 30 years ago there was a fortune to be made selling porn on the internet and they had to invent a way of paying for stuff online if they wanted to cream off a cut.

Absolute balderdash.

another non contribution. You have any evidence or counter arguments, or was you just going to post your usual unjustified unexplained unproven unverified unreasoned dismissal, contributing nothing to the debate ?

So you honestly believe in the veracity of your statement in that quote?
If you do you'd better stick to your normal plagiarising others game, cos you talk complete **** otherwise.
I can't be **** doing your research for you, why should I when anybody over 40 reading that will see the stupidity of it immediately.
I'll give you one clue though, credit cards have been around a lot longer than 30 years. And 30 years ago you were lucky if you could get your computer to play a simple computer game never mind surfing the internet, if the internet had even existed, which it didn't.

 

[Lincsbodger]

You only have credit cards in the first place because it became blindingly obvious 30 years ago there was a fortune to be made selling porn on the internet and they had to invent a way of paying for stuff online if they wanted to cream off a cut.

Absolute balderdash.

another non contribution. You have any evidence or counter arguments, or was you just going to post your usual unjustified unexplained unproven unverified unreasoned dismissal, contributing nothing to the debate ?

So you honestly believe in the veracity of your statement in that quote?
If you do you'd better stick to your normal plagiarising others game, cos you talk complete bollix otherwise.
I can't be rsed doing your research for you, why should I when anybody over 40 reading that will see the stupidity of it immediately.
I'll give you one clue though, credit cards have been around a lot longer than 30 years. And 30 years ago you were lucky if you could get your computer to play a simple computer game never mind surfing the internet, if the internet had even existed, which it didn't.

ah so you dont have the brains to provide supporting arguments and evidence. Thought so. Why did you bother posting if you cant contribute to the debate?

BTW......................the internet started in the late 70's, 30-40 years ago

The Internet was invented in 1973 by Vinton Gray Cerf. Cerf, who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in the United States on June 23, 1943, is an American computer scientist who played a key managerial and technical role in the invention of the Internet. He also created the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which are extensively used as Internet protocols the world over nowadays. Cerf established the Internet Society (ISOC) in 1992

Lawrence Roberts led development of the ARPANet network architecture, and based it on the new idea of packet switching. A special computer called an Interface Message Processor was developed to realise the design. The ARPANet first went live in October 1969, with communications between the University of California in Los Angeles and the Stanford Research Institute.
The first networking protocol used on the ARPANet was the Network Control Program. In 1983, it was replaced with the TCP/IP protocol, which is still the standard used today.

The first email was sent in 1971 between two DEC PDP 10's over ARPANET


I was writing COBOL 66 on a teletype and punch cards in 1980. Whats was you doing , sooey ?

 

[dave.m]

You only have credit cards in the first place because it became blindingly obvious 30 years ago there was a fortune to be made selling porn on the internet and they had to invent a way of paying for stuff online if they wanted to cream off a cut.

Absolute balderdash.

Tend to agree that bodger is talking a load of borrocks.
30 years ago was 1980 and this explains how 'advanced' the web was:

The Internet in the 1980's

As for inventing credit cards to facilitate buying stuff on the web, another load of borrocks:

The first Credit Cards invented in 1950

McNamara discussed the idea with Bloomingdale and Sneider and the three pooled some money and started a new company in 1950 which they called the Diners Club.

 

[Lincsbodger]

You only have credit cards in the first place because it became blindingly obvious 30 years ago there was a fortune to be made selling porn on the internet and they had to invent a way of paying for stuff online if they wanted to cream off a cut.

Absolute balderdash.

Tend to agree that bodger is talking a load of borrocks.
30 years ago was 1980 and this explains how 'advanced' the web was:

The Internet in the 1980's

As for inventing credit cards to facilitate buying stuff on the web, another load of borrocks:

The first Credit Cards invented in 1950

McNamara discussed the idea with Bloomingdale and Sneider and the three pooled some money and started a new company in 1950 which they called the Diners Club.

Yes credit cars were invented in the 1950's, but they were not a universal thing. What spurred them into the mass marketing of credit and credit cards in the late 1980's was the demand to be able to pay for things online, and particularly the online porn industry was crying out for it, and they could show there was millions to be made, and there still is, pornography is the still single largest commodity purchased on the internet. There was a huge explosion of personal credit in the Thatcher years fueled by the sudden mass availability of the credit card. I got my first one (Barclaycard) in 1982.

 

[sooey]

It doesn't take brains to use google, lets face it even you can do it.
But credit cards were invented over sixty years ago, the internet as a useable resource for millions is a recent phenomenon, and 30 years ago it would not have been possible for anyone to foresee the huge advances in graphics and processors necessary to allow watchable porn movies to be streamed online. Much less to roll out the incredible investment needed to set up the credit card infrastructure just to meet an as yet non existant demand. You must know this, you must realise that you've just made yourself look stupid again so why carry on arguing and make yourself look even worse. Not that I care, it's amusing.

 

[Lincsbodger]

It doesn't take brains to use google, lets face it even you can do it.
But credit cards were invented over sixty years ago, the internet as a useable resource for millions is a recent phenomenon, and 30 years ago it would not have been possible for anyone to foresee the huge advances in graphics and processors necessary to allow watchable porn movies to be streamed online. Much less to roll out the incredible investment needed to set up the credit card infrastructure just to meet an as yet non existant demand. You must know this, you must realise that you've just made yourself look stupid again so why carry on arguing and make yourself look even worse. Not that I care, it's amusing.

Ive worked in the IT industry since the late 1970's till the early 2000's sooey, i was there, while you were still in nappies.

if you dont like my posts, then put me on ignore, your trolling and offensive comments and aggressive insulting attitude WILL get you banned, ill make sure, you just give me the ammo and keep them comments coming................

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