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Wireless Registers May Expose Your Credit Card

Posted by timothy on from the remember-dilbert's-waitress dept.

flynt writes: "Found this article about people sitting in Best Buy parking lots with wireless sniffers and intercepting credit card numbers that the wireless cash registers inside the store are beaming about. Gives more credence to the idea of one time use credit card numbers. Now you don't even have to be online to have your number stolen."

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  1. Re:Not surprised by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't expect my mechanic to know how to fix my car,

    Maybe you should find another mechanic. That's exactly what a mechanic SHOULD know.

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