[Gllug] Chip and PIN

[Grzegorz Jaskiewicz]

On Wednesday 10 May 2006 16:50, Alain Williams wrote:

> What worried me (at Tesco) was that a wire went from the keypad, to the
> till, to the keyboard that contained the card. Since tills, today, are
> programmable PCs (I know - I have worked with them) it would probably not
> be too hard to snoop my pin passing via the PC. That could all be done by
> remotely downloading an 'extra' module to the till and no one would be any
> the wiser.
pin pads, all, these days encrypt anything that goes off wire. Same applies to 
both banking machines, and pin pads connected to terminal in any shop. The 
only way someone can stole your PIN from the pad, is when you add one overlay 
on it that would capture it. And believe me, ppl did that in the past - at 
least for "The hole in the wall".

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GJ
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