New Bank Technology

While reading over the current events on CNN.com I came across an interesting article. The article explains how some banks are going to be allowing customers to deposit checks from home using a scan of the check. This was very interesting to me, and my first thought, especially after reading The Cuckoo’s Egg (see previous post), was about the security of it. I would imagine that it will be very difficult to distinguish a bad check from a good one when you are looking at a scan. The article does mention that each bank will put in their own fraud protection for the service, as to what that entails, they are not clear. I think that it will be very interesting to see where and when this becomes available to everyone, and I hope that it works to benefit customers, and not screw up bank accounts.