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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Apple Pay Exposes Insecure Bank Policies
Date: 21 Mar 2015 15:01:14 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2015-03-21, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <cn4tk1F3eloU2@mid.individual.net>, Huge
><Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Given that fraud via Apple Pay is approx 100 times as prevalent as fraud
>> via other channels from the same banks, it seems not unreasonable to assign
>> the fault to Apple.
>
> it's up to the bank, not apple, to approve or decline a card to be used
> with applepay.
>
> if the thug provides the appropriate information and the bank is
> satisfied, then there's not much apple can do.

Yeah, but that doesn't help the haters blame Apple. Logic be damned.

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