BBC NEWS | Business | Device 'steals chip-and-pin data'

[Peter Tomlinson]

David Hansen wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2008 at 13:55, Peter Tomlinson wrote
>> Birmingham police had a dedicated bank card fraud unit at least ten 
>> years ago.
>>     
> Wasn't that about the time that the police/Home Office had the "bright" 
> idea of transferring this sort of investigation to the banks? If it 
> wasn't so serious it would be comical. The bank steals your money, the 
> police couldn't care less and tell you that you must ask the bank to 
> investigate itself. 
Not far off the truth, David. Twice about 10 years ago I listened to the 
Brummy police talking about it to an industry group, and the police 
attitude was that the bankers had deployed such an insecure mag stripe 
system that they should solve the problem - but the boys in blue from 
Brum carried on working at catching people for a while.

Peter