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RE: Why Blockbuster looks at your ID.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cid Carlos)
Sat Jul 9 13:30:00 2005
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From: Cid Carlos <Carlos.Cid@rhul.ac.uk>
To: 'John Levine' <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:19:05 +0100
>I was in England last week where I noticed that the banks are
>switching all UK credit cards to chip+pin technology. We'll see.
>For that matter, French cards have all been chip+pin for years.
>Any idea what their fraud rates are like? The French card machines
>will do magstripe with a signature, but it's mostly us foreigners who need
it.
Below is a link to an interesting site discussing the "chip and PIN"
technology and its introduction in the UK (the article "Chip and Spin" also
addresses the French experience):
http://www.chipandspin.co.uk/
Carlos
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