One passage, labeled with a white card, contained a reward while the other one, labeled with a black card, led to an electrical shock.
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With the economy unraveling, ads for a new Visa Black Card from Barclays really stand out when sandwiched between news stories about layoffs and cutbacks.
Even if you left your Amex black card at home, it is worth going to see the artfully designed window displays, which change seasonally and get more spectacular each year.
Everyone is playing catch-up to American Express, the 800-pound gorilla of high-end cards, with its invitation only Centurion (aka, Black) card legendary among Hollywood types.
Half his building (at 9006 Yellow Brick Road, in an industrial park 30 minutes outside of Baltimore) operates in bingo-card black-and-white.
The company, Ponemon says, gave data from six million customer accounts to a marketing firm in Southeast Asia, where it was eventually posted to a Central Asian site dealing in black-market credit card numbers.
He ruled that Luke McAlister's collision with Yannick Jauzion was worthy of yellow card for the All Black center.
And corporate breaches spill millions of customers' credit card information into the black market: A breach in January at the retailer TJ Maxx revealed the private financial data of more than 46 million customers, while Certegy Credit Systems, a branch of Fidelity National Information Services, announced last week that a former employee had stolen and sold customers' data, exposing as many as 2.3 million accounts.
And corporate breaches spill millions of customers' credit card information into the black market: A breach in January at the retailer TJ Maxx (nyse: TJX - news - people ) revealed the private financial data of more than 46 million customers, while Certegy Credit Systems, a branch of Fidelity National Information Services, announced last week that a former employee had stolen and sold customers' data, exposing as many as 2.3 million accounts.
His lawyer, Johnnie Cochran, was accused of playing the "race card" to a largely black jury after suggesting that police had planted evidence in an attempt to frame Simpson because he was a black superstar.
The American Express Centurion card, also known as the "Black AmEx, " is the subject of much speculation on Internet chat rooms.
The American Express (nyse: AXP - news - people ) Centurion card, also known as the "Black AmEx, " is the subject of much speculation on Internet chat rooms.
This action targets those people that have been using credit cards as a way to purchase at the official rate rather than the black market rate, in effect creating a dual credit card exchange regime.
Mr Lobban added that government online taxation and benefits services could be targeted in future, and said a black economy had already developed which saw UK citizens' credit card details offered for sale.
The stack of black cards near the bottom are all the same type of Citi card.
Desautels performs background checks on all clients and sees his company as a healthy alternative to the black market, which is always hungry for new ways to steal corporate secrets and credit card data.
Of course, DefCon still attracts some true "black hat" hackers, bent on learning the newest tools for illegal intrusion, sabotage, espionage and credit card theft.
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