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Re: "Drift net fishing," GAK, FBI, and NSA



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In list.cypherpunks, [email protected] writes:

> Any idea what the basis for refusing "debit" cards is?

None whatsoever.

> I've heard that one concern is that debit cards will often not hold a high
> enough balance to be used as a security deposit.
> How this applies in terms of rental cars is a bit beyond me.

Me, either.  Perhaps this rental agency has had a rash of chargebacks?
The strange part is, when the car gets rented they don't run a charge
authorization, just check if the card's valid.  (if they did run a
validation, mine would have bounced because the Visa card they would
accept was quite full)
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