Apple Pay: a new frontier for scammers
(Guardian):
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/02/apple-pay-mobile-payment-system-scammers
Abraham says: "Fraud in Apple Pay... came as a surprise to all",
adding that too much trust had been put in the on-device security:
"The soft underbelly proved to be [the] provisioning of cards".
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Surprise? Excuse me? This was foreseeable all along. Consumers don't
really care how super-duper technically secure the system is supposed
to be, if they are still getting defrauded anyway.
--Lauren--
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