Easier to Get into Fort Knox

I've never in all of my life seen a security system in place such as the one that the United States Department of Treasury has. This system is used to access your personal accounts at Treasury Direct on the internet.



Let's face it, the wild west web has revolutionized how we all do our business and access data. Money is literally nothing but binary 0's and 1's anymore - floating all around the world. However, there are certainly perils with doing business, especially involving money, on the Internet. It is unfortunately common occurrence anymore that "undesirables" break into accounts, attempt to glean private information, steal userid's, passwords, and credit card information. One has to use due diligence at all times not to compromise their safety and privacy. You can never let your guard down as people will go to extreme measures to break your confidence.

I am old fashioned in one way and have not embraced the debit card craze. Yep, I'm the one in line at the super market that is writing out a check, holding up production and creating a bottleneck. Oh sure, I do use online banking and pay all of my bills electronically, but for everyday use I'm still a check writing cash-and-carry type of guy.

Here are some screen shots of the extraordinary security measure that is implemented at the Treasury Department. It will be interesting to see if such measures become more widespread in the coming years. It is a pain and it is a hassle to access account information and whether it "really works" or not is yet to be seen. However, I do feel that they have gone to great lengths to insure that only the authorized person can access the information.

Who knows, we will probably have home based retinal scanners and DNA verifiers before too long. I myself have a finger print reader at home that I use to access my accounts. :)

Till next time, see you on down the road in Orlando for CastExpo 2010 - Synchro32 Booth# 2101.


http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_mint/fun_facts/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=fun_facts13

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/fort-knox-depository.htm