In Canada we've had a system called Interac for several years now. It works in a similar fasion.
It's been enormously successful, and of course some people have taken advantage of it.
Some use simple setups, like having a card reader to get the magnetic swipe info from the card, and simply watching the customer enter their PIN. Others have replaced the terminals with ones that record.
Even more crafty people have put an insert on the card recepticle on an ATM, that looks like the stock one to the untrained eye. They leave it on for a few hours, then return and take it back with all the codes stored in it.
Any system can be circumvented. To the best of my knowledge though, no one has broken the actual encryption on a system like interac, it's all methods of capturing the data in it's unencryped form (ie, a camera pointed at the pin pad).
Agreed,
I have used my Zx-6R (600cc sportbike) for commuting to work (40 miles each way), and it gets excellent mileage, probably 35-40mpg.
If it were not for our Canadian winters, I'd be riding it year round.
At our office, out server/phone room was a 5x10 closet, with NO A/C in it at all. There was a single exhaust fan in the ceiling.
The room had all our phone system in it, voicemail, and all the IT equipment including the patch panels, switches, routers, DSL lines, and 4 servers. Oh, and the water main was in this room too, which in addition to being very scary having water pipes 2 feet from the servers, also meant I had to let the water meter guys in there every couple months to read the water meter.
When I was hired here I was horrified to see it, and as no money was in the budget for A/C, I cut a hole in one wall and put an intake fan there to at least suck in some cooler air. This helped a bit, but the room was still regularly over 30 degrees C.
After 2 years of the routers occasionally rebooting due to heat, an upgrade was finally approved. Still, no money for a big A/C unit, or any space to build a new server room. So, I ordered a self contained cooling rack (Liebert), used on Ebay. This sits in my office and is no noisier then a fridge. I didn't want to rerun all the cabling in the whole building, so I ran a few gigabit lines to it. All the servers are in there, happily in the low 20's C. The router, switches, phones system, and DSL lines are still in the closet, but they all generate little heat, so it's just normal room temperature in there.
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In Canada we've had a system called Interac for several years now. It works in a similar fasion. It's been enormously successful, and of course some people have taken advantage of it. Some use simple setups, like having a card reader to get the magnetic swipe info from the card, and simply watching the customer enter their PIN. Others have replaced the terminals with ones that record. Even more crafty people have put an insert on the card recepticle on an ATM, that looks like the stock one to the untrained eye. They leave it on for a few hours, then return and take it back with all the codes stored in it. Any system can be circumvented. To the best of my knowledge though, no one has broken the actual encryption on a system like interac, it's all methods of capturing the data in it's unencryped form (ie, a camera pointed at the pin pad).
Agreed, I have used my Zx-6R (600cc sportbike) for commuting to work (40 miles each way), and it gets excellent mileage, probably 35-40mpg. If it were not for our Canadian winters, I'd be riding it year round.
At our office, out server/phone room was a 5x10 closet, with NO A/C in it at all. There was a single exhaust fan in the ceiling. The room had all our phone system in it, voicemail, and all the IT equipment including the patch panels, switches, routers, DSL lines, and 4 servers. Oh, and the water main was in this room too, which in addition to being very scary having water pipes 2 feet from the servers, also meant I had to let the water meter guys in there every couple months to read the water meter. When I was hired here I was horrified to see it, and as no money was in the budget for A/C, I cut a hole in one wall and put an intake fan there to at least suck in some cooler air. This helped a bit, but the room was still regularly over 30 degrees C. After 2 years of the routers occasionally rebooting due to heat, an upgrade was finally approved. Still, no money for a big A/C unit, or any space to build a new server room. So, I ordered a self contained cooling rack (Liebert), used on Ebay. This sits in my office and is no noisier then a fridge. I didn't want to rerun all the cabling in the whole building, so I ran a few gigabit lines to it. All the servers are in there, happily in the low 20's C. The router, switches, phones system, and DSL lines are still in the closet, but they all generate little heat, so it's just normal room temperature in there.