[Gllug] OT - chip & pin

Mon Apr 3 23:13:37 UTC 2006

On Monday 03 Apr 2006 22:22, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

>This necessitates
> storing the PIN locally of course, but the chip is supposedly
> tamper-proof, and regarded (by the bank) as safe enough to hold this
> information.

Apparently not!   There are credible rumours circulating in the Police and the 
banking world that there are now large-scale, sophisticated chip and pin 
cloning operations.

Chris
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug