Just wait until they tell you that the transaction is not fraudulent because you made it and you're lying. Because after all, the card can not be cloned, so the only explanation is that you made the transactions. There was a news report out of somewhere in europe a few years back where this exact situation happened, and the victim of the fraud was actually arrested because the credit card company insisted the card was so secure that the only explanation was that he was complicit in the fraud.
NFC on your phone is secure, because it's only active when the phone is in use. NFC on your credit card is a security hole you can drive an oceanliner through because the card is ALWAYS on and people don't even have to touch it, or you, to get a copy of your card.
Do you work for the bank? You're spreading their lies for them.
There have been many proof of concepts showing making credit card transactions with the data from cloned cards. a simple google search will turn up news reports and plenty of videos.
Can't do that in Canada, chip cards must be used chip and pin. the chip does both contactless (ridiculously insecure) and chip & pin (the best security you can get on credit cards) destroying one destroys the other.
Don't worry, the banks are working hard to solve this security hole... by telling anyone who will listen that these cards are secure, and sticking their fingers in their ears any time anyone says any different.
My bank graciously offered to turn off the feature on my card, from their end, not mine. Which, if you know anything about how these hacks work, means that they're willing to take away all the convenience of the feature, while carefully maintaining the security risks on my card. I declined and cut the antenna instead.
Right now in Canada it is almost impossible to get a credit card without this security hole baked in. They all have it, they brag about it. And worse yet, if someone does manage to clone the card, the bank will insist that it's not possible to do so, and hold you liable for all the fraudulent transactions, after all, the security on the cards is perfect, so you must have authorized it.
My Seiko doesn't work, and Seiko charged me an arm and a leg for a "guaranteed" fix that only lasted a month, they now refuse to do anything about it or to refund the money I paid for the guaranteed fix...
If Netflix stops being the legal option by saying that you can't access the content because you happen to be physically located in the wrong spot, then it seems like saying "screw them" is perfectly appropriate as they already said the same to you.
As for pirating, we can prattle on and on about whether it's right or wrong to download your favourite shows, but if the industry refuses to provide the content people want, in the format they want, at a price they're willing to pay, nobody should be surprised if people bypass the industry.
Netflix has proven that people are willing to pay for content when it's convenient and reasonably priced, but when that one legal outlet shuts you out, it's no surprise what the result ends up being.
My house is very unpredictably empty. But I've also seen nothing to indicate that Nest can handle that any better than my existing "dumb" thermostat. It can only detect people if they walk near the thermostat (which is in an upstairs hallway that I don't walk by very often), it can guess at schedules, but I can guarantee it can't guess at ours. I could manually program a schedule in to it, but it would always be wrong, and It would be just as easy to manually adjust the thermostat each time.
Now if they implemented something that looked at multiple google calendars, and assumed that if there was nothing scheduled on any of them that there'd be someone home, then it would be useful, but right now it only works if your house is PREDICTABLY empty.
Which makes them doubly crippled as the mobile website is almost never as fully functioned as the desktop one, even though modern smart phones really can handle all of it.
I'm sick of fighting with websites trying to figure out how to get the "real" site on my phone, I NEVER, EVER want to see a "mobile" version of any website. 100% of the time the mobile site is less functional on my phone than the desktop version.... Slashdot are you listening?...
Luckily 100% of your programs have nearly exact duplicates available, that most likely work even better than their windows counterparts, and are easy to find an install with your Linux package manager.
The fact you needed to put three "old"s in there pretty much sums it up. Any system that you can run Windows 10 on is almost guaranteed to bit fine from a thumb drive.
That's the nice thing about Linux, it "just works" Getting a Windows system to do what you want can take forever, but not so with Linux. getting software is so much easier with the built in repositories, as is keeping it all up to date. No messing with drivers for each and every thing you plug in to the computer (how many times does the computer have to "install drivers" do open the same USB stick it had plugged in yesterday???) Hardware works without thought.
Linux used to be hard to use 15-20 years ago, but now it's so much easier than Windows, and does so much more too. There's really no good reason for anyone to still put up with Windows at this point except ignorance and inertia.
NT was the one time in all of windows history that nerds thought of using it, at the time Linux was pretty painful without a LOT of extra work, and windows, despite all it's flaws, wasn't all that bad. After NT though it was all downhill for windows, and Linux progressed so well, and once Linux became easier to use than windows 5-10 years ago, there was really no more reason for anyone to use Windows except ignorance and inertia.
This isn't 3G, 3G is still alive and well, it's the even older technology that is being turned off. About the only people still using it are companies using the "push to talk" service that TELUS marketed as "Mike", and they've all been given transition paths to LTE push to talk apps, or off cellular all together (for example Alberta Health Services EMS used Mike phones, and they are in the process of transitioning to the new Alberta First Responder Radio Communication System (AFRRCS))
The TELUS network has 3G HSPA on every cell site. with LTE on a large number and ever increasing.
Great in theory, but once you have the hash table, it's just a matter of time until you find the passwords that generate the hash. It's brute force, but there simply aren't enough combinations possible to stop it. Now hashing is still a whole lot better than storing the passwords themselves, but it's not perfect. If there's a way to use the has table to verify passwords (which is essential for it to work at all) then there's also a way to brute force it once you have it on your own system with lots of time to spare. Although a strong password could take a very long time to crack, even in such a scenario, most people use fairly weak passwords which are the ones that any cracking algorithm will be guaranteed to try first. In past tests on similar dumps of data 90% of passwords have been cracked in under an hour.
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And then have better lawyers and more money to throw at the court system than Apple does... oh wait... you don't have that?
Just wait until they tell you that the transaction is not fraudulent because you made it and you're lying. Because after all, the card can not be cloned, so the only explanation is that you made the transactions.
There was a news report out of somewhere in europe a few years back where this exact situation happened, and the victim of the fraud was actually arrested because the credit card company insisted the card was so secure that the only explanation was that he was complicit in the fraud.
NFC on your phone is secure, because it's only active when the phone is in use.
NFC on your credit card is a security hole you can drive an oceanliner through because the card is ALWAYS on and people don't even have to touch it, or you, to get a copy of your card.
So it's ok if people steal $100 at a time from you? it's not ok if they steal it from me.
And you don't need a merchant account to use a cloned card, you go to the store and buy things, only you use someone else's card.
If you haven't heard of any examples, you haven't been paying attention. try a simple google search.
I didn't say the world would end, just that fraud would be a problem. And it is.
Do you work for the bank? You're spreading their lies for them.
There have been many proof of concepts showing making credit card transactions with the data from cloned cards. a simple google search will turn up news reports and plenty of videos.
Can't do that in Canada, chip cards must be used chip and pin. the chip does both contactless (ridiculously insecure) and chip & pin (the best security you can get on credit cards) destroying one destroys the other.
Don't worry, the banks are working hard to solve this security hole... by telling anyone who will listen that these cards are secure, and sticking their fingers in their ears any time anyone says any different.
My bank graciously offered to turn off the feature on my card, from their end, not mine. Which, if you know anything about how these hacks work, means that they're willing to take away all the convenience of the feature, while carefully maintaining the security risks on my card. I declined and cut the antenna instead.
Right now in Canada it is almost impossible to get a credit card without this security hole baked in. They all have it, they brag about it. And worse yet, if someone does manage to clone the card, the bank will insist that it's not possible to do so, and hold you liable for all the fraudulent transactions, after all, the security on the cards is perfect, so you must have authorized it.
My Seiko doesn't work, and Seiko charged me an arm and a leg for a "guaranteed" fix that only lasted a month, they now refuse to do anything about it or to refund the money I paid for the guaranteed fix...
My Huawei watch on the other hand works great!
Better yet, stop paying. I know I never pay for services that aren't delivered.
If Netflix stops being the legal option by saying that you can't access the content because you happen to be physically located in the wrong spot, then it seems like saying "screw them" is perfectly appropriate as they already said the same to you.
As for pirating, we can prattle on and on about whether it's right or wrong to download your favourite shows, but if the industry refuses to provide the content people want, in the format they want, at a price they're willing to pay, nobody should be surprised if people bypass the industry.
Netflix has proven that people are willing to pay for content when it's convenient and reasonably priced, but when that one legal outlet shuts you out, it's no surprise what the result ends up being.
cashing a cheque is done simply by uploading a photo of the cheque, when did websites stop having the ability to accept file transfers?
Additionally... Cheque?? what backwards country are you in where anyone still uses those?
My house is very unpredictably empty. But I've also seen nothing to indicate that Nest can handle that any better than my existing "dumb" thermostat.
It can only detect people if they walk near the thermostat (which is in an upstairs hallway that I don't walk by very often), it can guess at schedules, but I can guarantee it can't guess at ours. I could manually program a schedule in to it, but it would always be wrong, and It would be just as easy to manually adjust the thermostat each time.
Now if they implemented something that looked at multiple google calendars, and assumed that if there was nothing scheduled on any of them that there'd be someone home, then it would be useful, but right now it only works if your house is PREDICTABLY empty.
Websites are perfectly capable of taking advantage of GPS. don't need an app for that.
Why can you see banking apps? My bank's app is just a re-packaged version of their website. what reason does it have to be an app?
Which makes them doubly crippled as the mobile website is almost never as fully functioned as the desktop one, even though modern smart phones really can handle all of it.
I'm sick of fighting with websites trying to figure out how to get the "real" site on my phone, I NEVER, EVER want to see a "mobile" version of any website. 100% of the time the mobile site is less functional on my phone than the desktop version. ... Slashdot are you listening?...
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Luckily 100% of your programs have nearly exact duplicates available, that most likely work even better than their windows counterparts, and are easy to find an install with your Linux package manager.
You're delusional if you think that the other programs will simply vanish and the money will be saved. Governments don't shrink voluntarily.
The fact you needed to put three "old"s in there pretty much sums it up. Any system that you can run Windows 10 on is almost guaranteed to bit fine from a thumb drive.
That's the nice thing about Linux, it "just works" Getting a Windows system to do what you want can take forever, but not so with Linux. getting software is so much easier with the built in repositories, as is keeping it all up to date. No messing with drivers for each and every thing you plug in to the computer (how many times does the computer have to "install drivers" do open the same USB stick it had plugged in yesterday???) Hardware works without thought.
Linux used to be hard to use 15-20 years ago, but now it's so much easier than Windows, and does so much more too. There's really no good reason for anyone to still put up with Windows at this point except ignorance and inertia.
"No obligation to support" is a whole lot different from "right to force the customer to take a whole new product"
NT was the one time in all of windows history that nerds thought of using it, at the time Linux was pretty painful without a LOT of extra work, and windows, despite all it's flaws, wasn't all that bad. After NT though it was all downhill for windows, and Linux progressed so well, and once Linux became easier to use than windows 5-10 years ago, there was really no more reason for anyone to use Windows except ignorance and inertia.
A thumb drive is much cheaper, and at least as effective, if not more so.
This isn't 3G, 3G is still alive and well, it's the even older technology that is being turned off. About the only people still using it are companies using the "push to talk" service that TELUS marketed as "Mike", and they've all been given transition paths to LTE push to talk apps, or off cellular all together (for example Alberta Health Services EMS used Mike phones, and they are in the process of transitioning to the new Alberta First Responder Radio Communication System (AFRRCS))
The TELUS network has 3G HSPA on every cell site. with LTE on a large number and ever increasing.
Great in theory, but once you have the hash table, it's just a matter of time until you find the passwords that generate the hash. It's brute force, but there simply aren't enough combinations possible to stop it.
Now hashing is still a whole lot better than storing the passwords themselves, but it's not perfect. If there's a way to use the has table to verify passwords (which is essential for it to work at all) then there's also a way to brute force it once you have it on your own system with lots of time to spare. Although a strong password could take a very long time to crack, even in such a scenario, most people use fairly weak passwords which are the ones that any cracking algorithm will be guaranteed to try first.
In past tests on similar dumps of data 90% of passwords have been cracked in under an hour.