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Re: Financial identity is *dangerous*? (was re: Fake companies, real money)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eugen Leitl)
Mon Oct 25 16:28:13 2004
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Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:41:55 +0200
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
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On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 06:58:26PM +1300, Aaron Whitehouse wrote:
> That would seem to me a more realistic expectation on consumers who are=
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> going to have, before too long, credit cards that fit that description=20
> and quite possibly the readers to go with them.
No, that's going to be the mobile phone. These already come with smartcards;
unfortunately their security is really lousy, so a secure pathway into the
secure crypto compartment for PIN entry is required.
In practice, no one is going to give a damn, until PIN-harvesting Bluetooth=
&
Co worms will result in palpable loss for the institutions.
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Eugen* Leitl <a href=3D"http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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