That is a neat concept....
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Michael Butash <
michael@butash.net> wrote:
> So, I don't normally try to sell friends (or enemies) into banking slavery
> or anything else really, but for those that need a card to buy things
> online and other sketchy places, I found Final to be rather compelling
> geeky solution. I'd heard about what it does, and found it a service I've
> waited for for a long time. https://getfinal.com/
>
> I got signed up on the waiting list a while back and got in recently, and
> they're now sending some "friend" codes out to get others in. Seems some
> folks here might appreciate the solution too, I'm liking it so far.
>
> Don't blame me for your credit, but if you're interested, go to
> http://signup.getfinal.com and use this code to get in:
>
> ea80be9810603cabf7aa.
>
> What sold me on it? I am sick of replacing my card every 3 months with
> every new leak of my PCI data, so this allows me to create a unique
> one-time, or vendor-locked card id to a give each unique merchant you deal
> with.
>
> Ideally if the number is compromised, you only lose the one use/vendor
> anyways, plus you know who sucked and gave up your data in theory. The
> android app is basic, but works well for managing and creating the card
> number profiles per merchant.
>
> I rather hate the fact every time I have to change my card, and be
> inconvenienced resetting it across 50 other merchants, that I am at least
> not told what merchant was compromised, therefore banks protecting their
> inept customers, insecure organizations doing so. I'm hoping this helps me
> identify the stupid to never do business with them again.
>
> Sadly no other/real bank really offers anything remotely like this. HTH!
>
> -mb
>
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