[Gllug] natwest fantasticness

[adam at thebowery.co.uk]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:14:10PM +0100, Peter Childs wrote:

>    Its like this new Chip and Pin. If thats more secure than a personal 
> thing like a signiture then I'm not a computer programmer. In this age 

>    Sorry for stating my opions but the adverts were beginning to get on 
> my nerves.

But in Europe they have lower levels of CC fraud so it must work? Anyhow the
weak link of signatures is that the cashier will accept them whatever so the
weakest link using them is the pink squishy thing behind the counter which
provides even less security than having to know a number. 

I don't know how accurate/fake whatever this site is and can't be bothered to
check it out for autheticity (because I am a lazy pink squishy thing!)
http://www.thescreamonline.com/cartoons/cartoons3-3/ but it wouldn't surprise
me if it was all too sadly true.

Adam
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