-- rachel polanskis <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
On 01/08/2013, at 18:52, Jim Birch <[email protected]> wrote: > Product idea: A skim detector keyring? A better idea? How about only permitting contactless transactions only after a card has been swiped through the machine first? This means the user is "authorising" contactless purchases only on machines they "trust". Such authorisation would only last a set period of time. This could be useful for places you make regular transactions, not ad hoc usage anywhere. I do not use credit cards at all, so I may be mislead. rachel > > > On 1 August 2013 17:37, Harry McNally > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello Karl (and Link) >> >> On 01/08/13 13:46, Karl Schaffarczyk wrote: >>> Craig, >>> My local credit union (CPS) happily disabled the contactless >> functionality >>> of their card when I requested it. >>> >>> Their solution was to set the authorised transaction limit to zero, which >>> doesn't stop presentation of the card, but all transactions are declined. >>> The chip and magstripe both work just fine. >> >> I assumed (perhaps incorrectly) that the fast response of PayWave meant it >> was >> not authenticating the transaction in real time. So it's not clear to me >> how >> the transaction limit will prevent loss (or theft). If the transaction is >> later declined then the merchant has a loss. >> >>> It might be worth asking Bendigo to make a similar adjustment. >> >> This doesn't prevent RFID card skimming; the concern raised by Craig. >> >> Harry >> _______________________________________________ >> Link mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link > _______________________________________________ > Link mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
