[Gllug] Chip and PIN

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 19:16 +0100, Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:07, John Winters wrote:
> 
> > I would certainly think twice about typing my PIN into any system where
> > my card was swiped through a card reader.  The ones where only the end
> > of the card goes into a closed slot (so that the chip can be activated)
> > could potentially let someone discover your PIN, but there's no way they
> > can read your mag-stripe.
> 
> The information on the mag stripe is, alas, duplicated on the chip.  

But you can't read the chip in the way you can read the mag stripe.
This is the entire point of the exercise of migrating to chip and pin.
Without this feature the whole migration would be a complete waste of
time.

John

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