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1996-10-15 - Re: “Drift net fishing,” GAK, FBI, and NSA

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From: roy@sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail)
To: unicorn@schloss.li (Black Unicorn)
Message Hash: 2b3584e60f61f47a9a8c60289f11bc10d10ec53714191de00f027e6208d823a4
Message ID: <961014.190532.7u9.rnr.w165w@sendai.scytale.com>
Reply To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.961014075619.7731B-100000@polaris>
UTC Datetime: 1996-10-15 00:42:27 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:42:27 -0700 (PDT)

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From: roy@sendai.scytale.com (Roy M. Silvernail)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 17:42:27 -0700 (PDT)
To: unicorn@schloss.li (Black Unicorn)
Subject: Re: "Drift net fishing," GAK, FBI, and NSA
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.94.961014075619.7731B-100000@polaris>
Message-ID: <961014.190532.7u9.rnr.w165w@sendai.scytale.com>
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In list.cypherpunks, unicorn@schloss.li writes:

> Any idea what the basis for refusing "debit" cards is?

None whatsoever.

> I've heard that one concern is that debit cards will often not hold a high
> enough balance to be used as a security deposit.
> How this applies in terms of rental cars is a bit beyond me.

Me, either.  Perhaps this rental agency has had a rash of chargebacks?
The strange part is, when the car gets rented they don't run a charge
authorization, just check if the card's valid.  (if they did run a
validation, mine would have bounced because the Visa card they would
accept was quite full)
- -- 
           Roy M. Silvernail     [ ]      roy@scytale.com
DNRC Minister Plenipotentiary of All Things Confusing, Software Division
PGP Public Key fingerprint =  31 86 EC B9 DB 76 A7 54  13 0B 6A 6B CC 09 18 B6
                Key available from pubkey@scytale.com

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