Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news-peer.in.tum.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Apple Pay Exposes Insecure Bank Policies Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 19:14:16 +1100 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <200320151703579843%michelle@michelle.org> <550e4a73$0$25110$c3e8da3$92d0a893@news.astraweb.com> <550e6592$0$41695$c3e8da3$5d8fb80f@news.astraweb.com> <550e78c2$0$24961$c3e8da3$92d0a893@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net MycfDLivpy5bVqbr7n1vYAu9EXRhee66DkSaBJqky10bZ5a6g= Cancel-Lock: sha1:OO8eMmGgaxBHbHsjuSNj0YgRoIA= In-Reply-To: <550e78c2$0$24961$c3e8da3$92d0a893@news.astraweb.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:46767 comp.sys.mac.system:71791 JF Mezei wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> Yes, and the post office never did anything like that with credit cards. > Exactly. That is my point. No its not. > Apple is different from post office. What the post office does with credit cards is completely irrelevant to what is being discussed. > Post office doesn't do any marketing which sets expectations how > how the banking side will work or how its system is secure and simple. So what the post office does with credit cards is completely irrelevant to what is being discussed. > Apple does and this impacts how banks are expected to function. What the post office does is completely irrelevant to what is being discussed. You might as well proclaim that the dog catcher says nothing about credit cards and that would be just as irrelevant. > It is not impossible, but hard for a bank to go against Apple's > marketing of Apple Pay, with regards to how simple it is to setup. Nothing hard at all about notifying the customer when their card has been added to applepay so they can have the card cancelled if they have not done that themselves. > Bigger banks have easier time adding extra steps and breaking > the "simplicity" aspect of Apple Pay. Smaller banks may not. Bullshit. Any bank can notify the customer when their card has been added to applepay so they can have the card cancelled if they have not done that themselves.