[Gllug] OT - chip & pin

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 04:40:56PM +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:

> Not really, but chip and PIN is /really/ insecure as the PIN is held on the 
> card itself, albeit hashed.  There are *huge* numbers of cloned cards about, 
> and the banks are getting really worried about it, but see no easy (ie: 
> inexpensive) solution.

Got any real references to that ?

It might be fun/public_spirited/... to hit the banks with a request under the
new freedom of information legislation, if the act's teeth are strong enough.

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