And if those happen to be the first digits of a phone number? Address? Some other random data? Well too bad so sad. And let’s keep in mind your demand was to ban ALL financial data. So you also want to stop:
Social Security numbers, which have a standardized length but not much else
Bank account numbers, which have no standardization at all
Check routing code, somewhat standardized
Heck technically your full birth name is financial data, and your DOB.
How in the world are you going to block all that and have computers actually useful for ANYTHING. You’ve basically just declared the OS can’t be used by any business anywhere to do anything that businesses want computers to do.
It’s a dumb idea. Get over it. Get over yourself.
“You’ve basically just declared the OS can’t be used by any business anywhere to do anything that businesses want computers to do.”
I’ve described a purchase transaction from start to finish.
My system has the great advantage of allowing small businesses to avoid the massive credit card number compromise risk by simply never giving them a credit card number, only a payment verification message.
“And let’s keep in mind your demand was to ban ALL financial data.”
If the PC is not secure, then maybe financial data should not be on it.
And if the PC is secure, then no security updates would be needed.