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New Identity Theft Technology Fails to Protect
Nuclear Elephant writes "According to BBC News, identity thieves are quickly adapting to new technologies such as chip-and-pin credit cards using human nature tactics rather than cracking the technology. At least that's what Dr. Emily Finch (UEA), who interviews career criminals about their activities, claims. Finch swapped credit cards with a male coworker and performed a number of transactions without being challenged by cashiers. Finch also believes biometric identity cards will only exacerbate the problem. Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on, could this take us closer to embedded chips under the skin?"
Pardon me, I left off the link to the Zug.com prank(s).
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit_card/
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s/If it does work outside of your body/If it doesn't work outside of your body/
Can You Say Linux? I Knew That You Could.
Actually, yes there is a patch for human stupidity. It's called the birth control patch.
New York Times 2010
Eye gougings are up 20% this month since the introduction of the new Visa-Eye card, which owes its high security to the uniqueness of the user's iris pattern.
http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=122
I'm sure that's a great comfort when someone's cut your finger off to get past a biometric system.
I mean, you'd be sitting there trying to staunch the flow of blood as they run off with your finger, chuckling to yourself, and muttering "Those fools. They don't even know it won't work. What a bunch of idiots. I'm way smarter than them."
When I was over in the States recently, quite a few cashiers would notice my chip'n'pin card, mention that the US would be moving over to them soon, and saying how nice it will be to have that extra security.
What? They asked you that?? And they said they were looking forward to the extra security??? Wow! The only thing cashiers in the States ever ask me is if I want a receipt, and that's the smart ones. I'm shopping at all the wrong places.
They're working on it. It's called Smack-Me-Smart.
They take people who are stupid, like really stupid, can't get any dumber stupid.
Then they hit them, until the stupid comes right out.
This process is often implemented in 3rd World Countries and states like Texas and Florida, onto children and wives.
The process is not yet perfected, but it is a work in progress.