As the person you speak to at your internet bank has access to your TOP SECRET security questions and answers (for example, they will ask "what was your first pet?" and instantly say 'Right' or...
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Specifically, I want to know which ones have slide scanners? (Not many these days!)
Thanks.
Allen...
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When did this start? And why? When I was a drinker, many decades ago, you got a glass, automatically.
A...
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