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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 10:03 PM
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What if electronic banking were brought down to the level of electronic voting?
Easily hacked by other people, not enough cash station terminals where white people live and work, runs out of money in the middle of the day, you touch the screen and the amount changes, you walk away without a paper receipt, you aren't sure what the hell even happened, your account is overdrawn and you don't know why.

How long would Republicans put up with it?
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 10:09 PM
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1. My bank's machines are Diebold, so you know they can make them work corredctly, when they want to.
Proprietary software, my ass.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 10:12 PM
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2. Diebold also makes machines which dispense
medication perfectly in hospital and drugstore pharmacies, so yeah, they can be perfectly hacked.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 10:16 PM
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3. The Banks don't need to use those to steal, they have the GOP
in Washington and on Wall Street to do it for them.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 10:17 PM
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4. The current crisis would never have "happened." k+r, n/t
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Sebastian Doyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 10:17 PM
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5. Some banks DO all that shit.
That's why I don't have an account with Bank of America anymore.
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47of74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 10:26 PM
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6. I'd be keeping the money at home under the bed then
If electronic banking was brought down to the same level as electronic voting than I'd pull almost all my money out of the banks. Just keep enough in for check cashing privileges but otherwise my money would be under my mattress.
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