PIN's and credit cards.
Ken Brown
k.brown at ccs.bbk.ac.uk
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:05:40 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
[...]
> Meanwhile, what assurance does the user have that a PIN keypad on the
> till at a dodgy corner shop is doing anything other than skimming your
> card details *and* PIN, for use in a subsequent fraudulent transaction.
> That would be my main concern.
Why bother with that? In a society where effectively every shop has TV
cameras pointed at the customers, all they have to do is look at what
you type, "Safe beneath the Watchful Eyes".