..after they rewire every single store by hand.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/746380.asp?0si=-&cp1=1

"Best Buy closes wireless registers 
Hackers say credit card data vulnerable; other retailers at risk 
By Bob Sullivan
MSNBC 
 
May 1 - Think you are safe from the cryptic world of wireless computer
hacking? Think again. Security researchers who study wireless networks
have found another embarrassing information leak, this one involving
well-known retail giants. Some stores use cash registers with wireless
networks that beam data - including credit card numbers - to a central
computer elsewhere in the store. But a hacker can sit in a store's
parking lot and "listen in" to the data. Indeed, consumer electronics
retailer Best Buy Co. shut off wireless cash registers at its stores
Wednesday after being alerted to the potential problem, saying it was
investigating the issue. "

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