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Due to the lodging industry’s heightened sensitivity for the personal security of guests, the American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) is debunking the urban legend myth that magnetic-strip hotel room key cards contain guests’ personal information.
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The writers didn't know whether to write urban legend or urban myth so they wrote "urban legend myth".
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I read the title as "Logging Industry Addresses Identity Theft Urban Legend". I was trying to work out why anyone would want to steal the identity of a tree. There's still not enough caffeine in my life.
quote:Originally posted by Em: I read the title as "Logging Industry Addresses Identity Theft Urban Legend". I was trying to work out why anyone would want to steal the identity of a tree. There's still not enough caffeine in my life.
Good question - had me stumped.
My turn:
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quote:Originally posted by Em: I read the title as "Logging Industry Addresses Identity Theft Urban Legend". I was trying to work out why anyone would want to steal the identity of a tree. There's still not enough caffeine in my life.
Good question - had me stumped.
My turn:
It took me a moment to twig what you were on about - maybe the ID thieves are branching out?
Ouch! That hurt! Leaf me alone!
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On come on now. You guys are smarter than that. Everyone knows identify theft involves paper files and IDs. And what is paper made from? Trees! So if you plant the right bugs into trees, you can track what is written on the paper made from those trees and steal people's identities.
Ken
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I also read it as logging, but I thought it meant lumberjacks were saying identity theft was an urban legend, so I deserve this
edited for spelling, as if my post wasn't already retardulous enough
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I thought this wasn't actually a myth as people have used card readers to verify there was un-encrypted info on the card for some hotels
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quote:Originally posted by abigsmurf: I thought this wasn't actually a myth as people have used card readers to verify there was un-encrypted info on the card for some hotels
There is on some...it depends on the chain. I used to have a card reader and I've noted 6 or 7 different hotels that have had unencrypted information including name/address/phone info. and 2 even had my credit card number.
I contacted the management of the 2 hotels that had my credit card information on the keycard and both claimed to being unaware that the system stored such info. on the keycards, let alone stored it unsecurely.
I have no idea if they ever changed their policies and I've since lost my card reader (moving into my new house a couple of years ago)...but this is most definitely true in some instances but is by no means a universal thing across all hotels..
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