Ben Laurie wrote: > Then we get to the next problem: we don't trust the > device with the keypad and display. So, we need to add > that to the GTCYM (Gadget That Controls Your Money). > > And so we end up at the position that we have ended up > at so many times before: the GTCYM has to have a > decent processor, a keyboard and a screen, and must be > portable and secure.
Sounds remarkably like a cell phone with an NFC > One day we'll stop concluding this and actually do > something about it. Some of the poorest third world countries and some ex communist countries are adopting mobile phone banking, for example <https://www.mpay.pl/en/>, perhaps because they are not weighed down with twentieth century infrastructure, but until cell phones come routinely equipped with NFC, you cannot use a cell phone to pay for groceries. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
