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Old 17-02-2014, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by gary View Post
Hi Doug,

There is nothing "smart" about the smart-chips in credit cards.

If you show someone both sides of a credit card for 15 seconds without them even physically touching it, they can easily debit it to its full limit.
True Gary, chip/pin doesn't solve card-not-present fraud. It does largely stop card-present fraud.
How are all the traveling yanks with their no-chip cards going to cope when countries stop accepting signature, as Australia is supposed to be doing this year. I've already seen them having problems in Europe.
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