o_O let's see .. nope. weighing is a practical impossibility due to manufacturing variances being larger than the weight of circuitry. Visa Fail. If if manufacturing tolerances are sufficiently tight, that'd require a damn sensitive scale to detect some very small circuit additions!
The shimming thing is just plain scary. On 7/22/2010 12:52 AM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > Interesting juxtaposition of news items. A week or so ago, Visa recommended > weighing card readers, in order to detect those that had been tampered with. > > http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Visa-recommends-weighing- > card-readers-to-detect-tampering-1035293.html > > A couple of days later, saw a report on the latest ATM skimming scam: > shimming. > This is when the bad guys insert their own chip, that sits on top of the > contact > pad for "chip and pin" cards: > > http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/63544 > > ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) > [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] > An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. > A pessimist fears this is true. > victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html > http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ > http://www.infosecbc.org/links 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
