BBC: Smart card aims to fight fraud

[Owen Blacker]

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> > The LCD display on the card would also let you receive text messages
> > about special offers,
> 
> What, even without being swiped (which would again be an impressive 
> upgrade to the existing swiping technology)? Does it have some kind of 
> pager built in?

The way I read it, it can receive SMSes.  Hence the worry about DoS
attacks, for example.

http://www.privasys.com/Prod_SecurSys.htm has a little more info about it
(yes, it does dynamically change the magstripe), but doesn't mention that
functionality.


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