i can never remember my pin anyway
nevermind the chip

Not sure we use this here. My signature is almost impossible to reproduce, you'd practically have to unlearn how to write.

From a fraud prevention standpoint?

What did I say all those months ago, hmm?  What did I say?

Well... Ross agrees with me anyway.  Hah!

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'Chip and pin' security warning

A leading security expert has warned that new chip and pin credit and debit cards could be open to fraud.

Professor Ross Anderson, from Cambridge University, says villains will be able to capture card and pin data to "make up" forged cards.

Mr Anderson, an expert in security engineering, predicts problems.

"The sort of thing that I expect to go wrong is that villains will set up in business with equipment that will capture customer pins," he said.

"Now we're all being trained to use our pins at the point of sale it's a simple matter to set up a market stall and capture card and pin data.

"They can make up forged cards and use them, for example, at cash machines."

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I'll shut up now.


-- Edited by ddvmor at 07:44, 2005-08-26

Lite wrote:

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I aprove of C&P because it makes my life easyer and speeds up annoyingly long lines in shops.

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No argument from me on that score.  It's the crowing by the banks and government about safety and fraud prevention that I like to bitch and moan about!

i went into CVS (a hateful american pharmacy/drug store/cheap tacky stuff type place) the other day and i was purchasing about $30 worth of stuff with my home credit card - despite the whole signature is your id thing, quite often here you get asked for your license as additional proof of id - this case was no different and when i produced my driver's license - the young 12 year old keenan (from 'keenan and kel') look-a-like burst into a fit of laughter shouting some kind of 'areeee you seriiiious.. you want me to believe this is youuuu' kind of a rant - he then went to get the manager - actually, he might have been kel - and he did a similar thing, holding it up to my face, turning it over three or four times, repeating the question multiple ways to see if i would be like 'oh, oh you're right, it's not me'

- i told them if they wanted me to take my $30 of business else where i'd be happy to etc etc - funny enough, they ran my card

also, i would like to note, IF (and of course i never would ) i was going to be stealing something off someone's card i surely wouldnt just buy $30 worth of stupid stuff

Sometimes I find it hard to understand why it's wrong to hit these people.

sha76jam wrote:

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Sometimes I find it hard to understand why it's wrong to hit these people.

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It may be wrong to hit 'em, but I've just found a little 16th century by-law that say's you're allowed to murder them in cold blood with a cucumber or piece of battered cod.  But only if it's a tuesday and it's raining.

Took me a while to find, but here are the relevant bits:

The Numpty Reform Act 1597 (Amended in 1976)

Subsection 3 Paragraph 1 (a-c)

A numpty is defined as any person who:

a) demontrates an IQ lower than that of a chair;
b) unsuccessfully attempts to ridicule their betters; and
c) can be reasonably described as a character from a stupid TV show (usually a sitcom or children's television programme).

Subsection 3 Paragraph 8b

Furthermore it is declared that any person behaving in the manner described in subsection 3 Paragraph 1 (a-c) may, at the discretion of their betters, be subject to one or more of the following punishments:

i) beaten about the head with an item of battered seafood;
ii) beaten about the head with an appropriate salad item;
iii) drowned in a pot of muller lite yogurt; or
iv) frowned at disapprovingly.

If the level of numptiness displayed iS severe enough, this punishment should be carried out until such time as the offender is dead to prevent any (further) offspring who may carry hereditary numptiness to the next generation.

-- Edited by ddvmor at 00:04, 2005-08-30

That's where you're wrong...

 

(dammit)