

[From Hans] How crazy or cool depending on how you look at it is this?
Deposit a check via your iPhone "USAA, a privately held bank and insurance company, plans to update its iPhone application this week to introduce the check deposit feature, which requires a customer to photograph both sides of the check with the phone’s camera.
“We’re essentially taking an image of the check, and once you hit the send button, that image is going into our deposit-taking system as any other check would,” said Wayne Peacock, a USAA executive vice president." A good idea or a bad idea? Not sure for the sake of convenience.
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