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".