I just flew out of KL last night on a Malaysia Airlines flight (another 777), less than 24 hours after MH370.
I think they've tightened things up a little - forgot a couple of coins in my pocket at the first screening and set off the detector, got the full pat down. Then at the gate they were screening again immediately before boarding and doing it thoroughly. First time in this part of the world I've seen them making people take off watches & belts.
Seemed to be a few more uniformed guards around than usual, even a few between the gate screening and the airbridge which I don't recall seeing before.
Other than that everything seemed to be business as usual.
The merchant can make a transaction without the CVV, but they will almost certainly be charged a higher fee by the card company for doing so. Also, asking for the CVV goes some way towards reducing fraud since it eliminates any bad guys who only managed to get the PAN & expiry date, e.g. by swiping the track data since CVV2 isn't on the magstripe. This is very much in the merchant's interest since generally they are the ones who lose out if the transaction is fraudulent.
Seriously. This book opened my eyes to just what a stupid place I was working at and gave me the confidence to quit & go contracting. That was some seven years ago and I haven't looked back. I'm much wealthier and healthier (mentally and physically) than I would have been had I not read that book.
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The various companies involved (Visa, Mastercard, Proton etc) realise this and are actively working to introduce yet another standard, called CEPS. This should give cross border, multiple currency e-cash. Of course it takes a long time to introduce systems like this, there's cards, terminals, backend systems and interchange networks to build, and generally no-one wants to make the investment without some sort of assurance that it's actually going to be used and they will make money from it. Witness EMV (the chip equivalent to the magstripe on credit & debit cards). It's been around since '96 but is just now starting to take off in Europe. Probably won't be worldwide until around 2008. And this has Visa & Mastercard basically forcing it on banks around the world.
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I just flew out of KL last night on a Malaysia Airlines flight (another 777), less than 24 hours after MH370.
I think they've tightened things up a little - forgot a couple of coins in my pocket at the first screening and set off the detector, got the full pat down. Then at the gate they were screening again immediately before boarding and doing it thoroughly. First time in this part of the world I've seen them making people take off watches & belts.
Seemed to be a few more uniformed guards around than usual, even a few between the gate screening and the airbridge which I don't recall seeing before.
Other than that everything seemed to be business as usual.
The merchant can make a transaction without the CVV, but they will almost certainly be charged a higher fee by the card company for doing so. Also, asking for the CVV goes some way towards reducing fraud since it eliminates any bad guys who only managed to get the PAN & expiry date, e.g. by swiping the track data since CVV2 isn't on the magstripe. This is very much in the merchant's interest since generally they are the ones who lose out if the transaction is fraudulent.
Seriously. This book opened my eyes to just what a stupid place I was working at and gave me the confidence to quit & go contracting. That was some seven years ago and I haven't looked back. I'm much wealthier and healthier (mentally and physically) than I would have been had I not read that book.
The various companies involved (Visa, Mastercard, Proton etc) realise this and are actively working to introduce yet another standard, called CEPS. This should give cross border, multiple currency e-cash. Of course it takes a long time to introduce systems like this, there's cards, terminals, backend systems and interchange networks to build, and generally no-one wants to make the investment without some sort of assurance that it's actually going to be used and they will make money from it. Witness EMV (the chip equivalent to the magstripe on credit & debit cards). It's been around since '96 but is just now starting to take off in Europe. Probably won't be worldwide until around 2008. And this has Visa & Mastercard basically forcing it on banks around the world.