Smartcards are coming to the US

Lucky Green shamrock at netcom.com
Sun Apr 21 03:05:03 PDT 1996


At 22:33 4/20/96, Black Unicorn wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Lucky Green wrote:
>
>> Years after smartcards have become ubiquitous in such countries as Pakistan
>> and Nepal, not to mention Europe, I just saw my first smartcard commercial
>> ever on US television.
>>
>> Way to go :-)
>
>Have you seen the Visa (mastercard) commercial that shows the finger
>print reader and spouts off "Single digit PINs"  (Digit, get it?)

No, I saw the MC commercial with the Australian pilot. Are you serious?

Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, not those of my employer.

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