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Re: [Clips] Contactless payments and the security challenges
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anne & Lynn Wheeler)
Tue Sep 20 18:54:47 2005
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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:54:41 -0600
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
To: Alexander Klimov <alserkli@inbox.ru>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Alexander Klimov wrote:
> Since the phone has an LCD and a keyboard it is possible to display
> ``Do you want to pay $2 to ABC, Inc. ?'' and authorize the transaction
> only if the user presses OK (larger transactions may require the PIN).
> An additional benefit is that it is your own card accepting device and
> thus the risk that the PIN is keyloggered is lower (of course, this is
> only as far as mobiles are more secure than usual windows pc).
couple articles to put switch on RFID/contactless payment cards
that has to be depressed for the card to be active (somewhat cutting
down on some of the covert skimming attacks)
Switching Off Credit Card Fraud
http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1843/1/128/
Switching Off May Reduce Contactless Card Fraud
http://www.epaynews.com/index.cgi?survey=&ref=browse&f=view&id=1126873239622215212&block=
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