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| Ell | May 7 2009, 11:14 AM Post #1 |
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Bill currently in Illinois state Senate By Chad Douglas Tuesday, May 05, 2009 at 2:17 p.m. Quincy, Ill You may have seen an e-mail floating around that says if you are ever robbed at an ATM you can enter your personal identification number, or PIN backwards and it would alert police. That e-mail is false. Entering your PIN backwards does nothing, yet. We've found a man who has written some software that would make this actually work, but it's tied up in the Illinois Senate. KHQA recently visited with him and a local banker to get more information on the Emergency PIN System. "You go ahead and get a transaction, it looks perfectly normal. But the computer also sends a message to the police department," says Joseph Zingher, the inventor of the Emergency PIN System. Do you think this is a good idea? "It could be a comfort for some people. I would have to question how quickly you could think about it because you're caught off guard. Do you want to put yourself in a position where the police could arrive?" says Sue Dunseth with First Bankers Trust Company in Quincy. Sue Dunseth is a Vice President of Operations at First Bankers Trust. She says she'd worry if police showed up during the robbery, it might cause the robber to panic ending in tragedy. Joseph Zingher says he's heard it all. "What happens if someone can't use it? What if somebody panics? Nobody can use an emergency PIN system that isn't in place. Right now you have a 100% failure rate," says Zingher. Another question that has come up, what if all of the digits in your PIN are the same, or if it's the same backward as it is forward? "There's another kind of PIN like 2442, that you can't turn around backwards. You can turn it inside out. 2442 becomes 4224. That covers it except a PIN like 5555 in which case you add a one to each digit. 5555 becomes 6666," says Zingher. Another concern Dunseth has is if this were to pass, how could it be easily implemented because there are many networks that ATMs run on. She says customers would have to be trained to know their PIN backwards because most people would have to think about it. And if you're in duress, your mind probably won't function quickly. She says for the time being, it's best to be aware of your surroundings while using an ATM. "If there are people hanging around, or check around bushes or trees. If you don't feel comfortable, it's best to just go on," says Dunseth. The bill to make Zingher's idea happen is currently in committee in the state Senate. If you'd like more information, you can log onto Zingher's website at http://www.zicubedatm.com/. Also, Senators have until the end of this month to vote on it, or the bill becomes a thing of the past. By the way, Zingher is a Rushville native. He has also introduced the bill in other state legislatures, but it's not been able to find its way out of committee. Believe it or not, the reverse ATM PIN system is not Joseph Zingher's top priority in the state legislature. The former attorney is interested in two bills that are in the House. If they passed, it would give the state police a master list of ATM addresses. Then police could cross check that with crime code sections for murder, robbery, car jacking, home invasions, and missing persons. Cases could be pulled up with ATMs as a common factor. And Zingher says that could solve some cold case murders. "You may have someone who disappeared in Quincy. Another in Peoria, and another in Carbondale. In all three cases, you have a photograph of the same individual using their ATM card in all three cities. Right now, they can't piece that together. If the state police had that, then they could get an idea of who it is," says Zingher. http://www.connecttristates.com/news/news_....aspx?id=295949 |
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