While Chip & PIN I believe is the standard in Europe, Chip & Sig is more common in the U.S.
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 02:40:57 -0500 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements! > To: [email protected] > > Just chip, Martin. I got a new chip card last week and used it at Tesco in > the UK. Sure, it had to read the chip and could not be swiped, but no PIN, > just sign as usual and compare signatures - seems the Brits are much more > stringent in checking signatures on cards than in the US. > ALH > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Packer <[email protected]> > To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 19:26 > Subject: Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements! > > Ah Chip & PIN at last. > > Cheers, Martin > > Martin Packer, > zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, > Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance, IBM > > +44-7802-245-584 > > email: [email protected] > > Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker > Blog: > https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker > > > > From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: 21/11/2015 16:29 > Subject: Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card > statements! > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > > At 09:04 -0700 on 11/21/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Were you > at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card st: > > ><x-flowed utf-8>On 11/21/2015 08:49 AM, Bob Shannon wrote: > >>> Maybe someone should raise a requirement that the SHARE Hotels > >>>credit card system should be secure. > >> Seriously Ed? Do you really think a major hotel chain is going to > >>tell potential customers their credit card system is insecure? > >> > >Credit card companies are on the verge of providing an incentive by > making > >vendors liable for fraudulent charges on insecure credit cards. > > That went into effect as of October 1. That is why all the credit > cards are being reissued with chips. If a card with a chip is > presented to a merchant and the card is swiped in lieu of the chip > being read, the merchant is responsible for the fraudulent charge. > > > > >-- gil > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ></x-flowed> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
