Shell suspends chip and pin after ?1m fraud

Roland Perry ukcrypto at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed, 10 May 2006 12:39:43 +0100


In article <C086E4F8.C963F%zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk>, Peter Fairbrother 
<zenadsl6186@zen.co.uk> writes

>> tamper-evident enclosure
>
>There is no such thing, and especially so when the enclosure can be replaced
>in toto (i know of a chap who does imitation plastic goods, extremely well -
>fools the professional, never mind the man-in-the-street).

When this was discussed on the list a while ago, the conclusion seemed 
to be that APACS regarded "tamper evident" as meaning "tamper with it, 
and it will disable itself; a disabled pad is evident".

Rather than the other approach, which is making it easy to spot a bit of 
duck-tape holding it together after being prised apart.
-- 
Roland Perry