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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. Just my luck by CmdrTaco+(editor) · · Score: 1, Troll
    Most of the time the clerks can't run my credit cards through the scanner because the magnetic strip is screwed up, so they have to enter the numbers manually.

    I've always thought it to be inconvenient, but if this is true maybe more people will purposely disable their cards in such a fashion.