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Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by Splines on Friday March 25, 2016 @12:36AM (#11358504)
High level question about virtual cards and the implication of their implementation: 16 digits doesn't seem like a very high number of available cards, especially since at least two of those numbers are reserved (checksum and IIN number). At some point numbers are going to be recycled, right? Or am I massively underestimating the # of credit cards out in the world? It seems like if a large # of people get a new # for every transaction that it would use up the available namespace pretty quickly.
Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by ARolek on Friday March 25, 2016 @12:47AM (#11358528)
I believe expiration date plays into the possible combos. I'm not sure if CVC does.
Re:Privacy – Forget Your Credit Card by ryanlol on Friday March 25, 2016 @07:59AM (#11359573)
You only need the PAN to charge the card, and many banks will gladly accept charges on expired cards even if provided with an expiration date in the past.