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Visa To Push Swipeless Credit Cards
BobPaul wrote in to mention an initiative by Visa to allow for swipeless credit card transactions. From the article: "...consumers need only wave credit and debit cards within a few inches of a reader to complete a purchase. And for purchases of less than $25, no signature is required...Each transmission between card and reader has a unique code that cannot be reused even if it is intercepted". Update: 02/25 16:06 GMT by Z : References to RFID technology removed.
It is secure. They're using SHA-1 hashes.
to have the sales folks in a store be able to read the info, check your limit, and in *MY* case, simply leave me alone while i browse, since i'm always broke anyway and don't like to be hassled whilst i look at stuff i can't buy!
Yes, it's a joke.
Yeah, I certainly don't want some "merchant" waving their "cash-sucking wand" at my "back pocket".
I've always wanted an excuse to carry around a wallet made of tinfoil.... it'll match my hat, and my under.... I mean socks....
The editors aren't techies. (Of course, they're not competent editors, either).
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
In Soviet Russia, credit cards wave you!
RFID and Visa, for when it's too much effort to slide your card, you can just wave it around!
Pretty Pictures!
Scammer: "Could you step over here and read this number for me, I need to get new glasses or something." .... Yeah this is tiny print..."
Unsuspecting stooge: "sure, your total is
Scammer: "maybe you can read it from a little closer"
Unsuspecting stooge: "...$598. And it looks like your credit card was just approved too."
Scammer: "Oh, thanks you very much."
Unsuspecting stooge: "You're welcome"
It will be presented better in the dupe later today.
What keeps me going is my inertia.
Average Americans don't like doing that much exercise. Hell, next you'll make us get out of our cars to buy lunch, and that can only lead to socialism...
Now that's convenient!
The normal task of using a credit card:
1.) Get out your wallet.
2.) Get out the card.
3.) Place the card in the reader
4.) Swipe downward
That Step 4 was just killing me!
Information wants to be free.
Entertainment wants to be paid.
You just want to be cheap.
Salesman: $30 please.
Fry: $30? I can't afford that. Unless...[He pulls out his wallet.] Do you take RFID Visa?
Salesman: RFID Visa hasn't existed for 500 years.
Fry: RFID American Express?
Salesman: 600 years.
Fry: RFID Discover card?
Salesman: Uh, sorry we don't take RFID Discover.
Even better.
Wear a T-shirt saying "pencil $19.95", "ask for a refund if not satisfied" and walk around in a crowd handing out pencils whenever your battery powered and cellphone internet accessed credit processing system successfuly charges someones credit card for "pencil" at $19.95 bucks.
"Thank you, Here's your pencil sir"
they look at you funny and take your pencil cause your some crazy guy wearing a backpack with antennas sticking out all over and a tin foil hat and they don't want to mess with you.
You sold them a pencil, what crime was commited?
They can ask for a refund if not satisfied...
Lifes a game play to win!
I tried that.
Then I went to buy gas.
I put the card in the machine, and waited.
"Beep," it said.
I showed it my ID.
"Beep."
"No, this is my ID. See?"
Still, it refused to look. "Beep."
The crowd got larger and larger, but it still refused to look at my id. "Beep."
Now I'm stuck on my bicycle.
hawk