>>Apple has reversed a former policy. Cash is now acceptable tender for buying an iPad:
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>>http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/7_on_your_side&id=7451437&tsp=1
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>>Not accepting the greenback is definitely un-American, and may not even be legal.
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>>They formerly demanded a credit or debit card, as "best way we could think of to make sure that people only bought two per individual". So, obviously they were/are storing credit and debit card numbers.
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>>Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Apple Inc., the source of all things warm and fuzzy.
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>More bad PR. Even I, an avowed fan of Apple products, am starting to feel an invisible tide turning.
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>That may be exactly why they were storing the CC numbers, to enforce the limit of two purchases. But they sure aren't supposed to store those numbers. Mega bad in the CC business.

Actually, now that I think about it some more, they may not be storing CC/DC numbers. It would be a lot smarter to store hashes, and # purchased per hash. That should be OK to CC issuers.