[MUD-Dev] PvP Systems

[Michael Tresca]

the_logos at www.achaea.com posted on Sunday, February 18, 2001 4:21 AM

> Just as a side note to this, there is going to be increasing demand
> from internet merchants to develop systems that provide for a
> positive identification rate higher than we have now, unless Visa
> and Mastercard change their rules about chargebacks, which seems
> unlikely. Internet fraud is at least 10x the rate of brick and
> mortar fraud, and it is the merchant who suffers, not Visa, not the
> card holder. It seems almost inevitable to me that sometime in the
> next 10 years we're going to have wide-spread use of biometrics in
> credit card holder identification. The economic pressure to
> institute them is going to prove irresistible.

I've been part of business research into precisely this form of
identification, specifically retina scans and fingerprinting.  It's
expensive now, but it's just around the corner. I give it under 5
years.

Mike "Talien" Tresca
RetroMUD Administrator
http://www.retromud.org

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