... wireless pickpocketing era

[David Hansen]

On 9 May 2007 at 12:52, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> Or, suppose your kids get hold of it ... when it stops working, they put
> it back until Mummy or Daddy enters the pin which makes it work again ..

Hadn't thought of that, but a good point.

> The real difficulty however is, how do you prove it? You _were_ walking
> down Oxford Street that day, may even have made some purchases in the
> shop next door, so the fact that you didn't buy that £9.99 bottle of
> gin/CD/DVD is going to be _very_ hard to prove ... especially a month or
> more later ...

Especially as no-doubt, as with chip and pin (and indeed previous card 
schemes) the banks will assert that their engineering is infallible and 
it will be very difficult to prove otherwise.

-- 
  David Hansen, Edinburgh 
 I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents 
me   
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54