Newsnight tonight

[Peter Tomlinson]

Russell Wykes wrote:
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian G Batten"
>  <ian.batten@uk.fujitsu.com> To: <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
>  Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:11 AM Subject: Re: Newsnight tonight
>
> >
> > On 20 Jun 2007, at 19:19, Ross Anderson wrote:
> >
> >> We helped make a piece on ATM fraud a few weeks ago for
> >> Newsnight, pointing
> >
> > That presumably explains why I had slightly dislocating experience
> > this morning of glancing from loading weights onto a bar to see
> > Ross's face on the big screen TV...
> >
> > ian
> >
> >
>  Ross's contribution, as we might expect, was superbly competent.
>  Which is more than could be said for Sandra Quinn from APACS in the
>  subsequent interviw with Jeremy Paxman. The words 'struggling' and
>  'out of her depth' spring to mind.
>
>  Russ
>
This takes me back some years to the days when police from I think the 
West Midlands were the most active in investigating bank card fraud, and 
were having difficulty in getting Home Office to take their iniative 
national. However, the police officers, who appeared at more than one 
Smartex forum meetings, were quite candid about the whole topic: the 
systems and methods being used by the banks were not secure enough, so 
it was really the responsibility of the banks to look after their 
customers better.

As we know, the banks issued cards and terminals using only the SDA 
method, when best advice was to go straight to DDA - but SDA was cheaper 
to roll out.

Peter