Re: Swiping Is the Easy Part [telecom]

From	"John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.dcom.telecom
Subject	Re: Swiping Is the Easy Part [telecom]
Date	2011-03-29 08:04 +0000
Organization	The Telecom Digest
Message-ID	<20110329080416.84107.qmail@joyce.lan> (permalink)
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>> I cannot read a magnetic stripe unless I have physical possession;
>> not true with proximity chips.
>
>This just screams "DESIGN ERROR"!

There's also a contact version of EMV chips.  Every credit and debit
card in most countries other than the US has one.  I don't entirely
understand why the US banks are going straight to contactless.

R's,
John

***** Moderator's Note *****

Maybe it's because they let the _other_ guys do the scut work for a
change? Perhaps it's because they had an attack of common sense, and
decided to let someone else do free R&D?

Bill Horne
Moderator

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Re: Swiping Is the Easy Part [telecom] "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> - 2011-03-29 08:04 +0000
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