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poss. for IP: chip-and-PIN takes a fall in the UK
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 16:09:05 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Tom Yates <madhatter () teaparty net> Date: May 7, 2006 2:16:33 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: poss. for IP: chip-and-PIN takes a fall in the UK Prof. Farber:The BBC is carrying a piece on a substantial failure of "the new, more secure way to pay with credit or debit cards in the UK"(*). As they say, "Shell has suspended chip-and-pin payments in 600 UK petrol stations after more than [a million pounds] was siphoned out of customers' accounts".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4980190.stm(*) Quoted from the card industry's site at http:// www.chipandpin.co.uk/ .
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