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?"

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OFF TOPIC - Wood elves

[Turn-X Alphonse]

Completely and utterly off topic but hopefully someone can help since this is slashdot.

I'm trying to find out which chapters of lord of the rings (all 3 books) contain elves living in woods (AKA wood elves). So if anyones got a spare five minutes and knows could they reply please with the answer.

*Waves to his Karma as it vanishs*

Re:OFF TOPIC - Wood elves

[Turn-X Alphonse]

Thanks.

I'm working on some wood elf model display peices and doing as much research as I can and since I have the book here I figure may as well research it.

Re:Always a way!

[Dogtanian]

Who needs 'liberals' to do all that stuff? It looks like your present government is the most zealous fan of the "use terrorism to suppress civil liberties" technique around.

It proves that the "right wing vs. left wing" is (and always has been) over-simplistic bullshit that leads people to believe "not left wing" means "in favour of freedom".

You think your media are biased? They are. By anyone else's measure, the American press is very pro-government and biased to the right. It's pretty mind-boggling that you consider it otherwise. Although I guess if you listen to Murdoch-mouthpiece outlets that spout that old lie often enough, you come to believe it, right?

Corrupt? The present US administration seems more nakedly partisan than any I've seen so far.

Anyway, I assume you don't lump your present government in with the "liberals", which is odd, because they seem more anti-freedom and pro- their own interests than the opposition. Not that I'm claiming the Democrats are perfect, but to criticise the American "left" (it's all relative I guess, though Clinton was- and the Democrats probably still are- more Republican by most standards) for things that the current right-wing administration are doing more seems pretty strange.

BTW, your opening paragraph doesn't make any sense, some rambling with stuff about liberals thrown in; couldn't make head nor tail of it.