Apparently German credit card transactions have hit a glitch over one of the (seemingly many) Y2K+10 bugs.
However, what I found most interesting was that the new chip cards seem to have a fail safe mode. If they can't read the chip, they happily drop back to swipe card mode. According to http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/0,1518,670433,00.html (sorry, I couldn't find an English translation), retailers are now keeping a roll of tape beside the cash registers in order to hack the cards so that they work properly ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/NoticeBored http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
