David Loysen wrote: | Most if not all credit card issuing banks use some form of fraud detection | software. The next generation of these products will be analyzing | transaction data from the card clearing banks in real time to stop | fraudulent transactions before they are complete. Expect to see more "may I | see your ID" questions as these systems flag transactions as possible fraud. | I have had a credit card with my photo on it for several years, I can't ever | remember a sales person who seemed at all interested in comparing the photo | to me. Most merchant agreements prohibit asking for more ID beyond the card. As to the issue of 'do people look at photos?' they don't even look at signatures. I know because I carried a card around for 2 years before anyone noticed that I hadn't signed it. The person who noticed asked me to sign the card (without showing other ID!) before handing over the computer I was buying. Adam cpunk relevance? Most security that relies on people being awake is broken. Security that relies on people with no financial interest in a transactions security is broken. Studying how security breaks today is a good idea. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume