Re: Bluetooth cracked further

2005-06-03 Thread Edgar Danielyan
> If you have a pair of bluetooth devices that are paired, best to keep > them in a faraday cage at all times. "Buy a Bluetooth phone and get a matching colour Faraday cage for FREE!" * * Faraday not included. ... - The Cryptog

Re: Why Blockbuster looks at your ID.

2005-07-08 Thread Edgar Danielyan
Yes. And it will not happen. The cost and hassle of introducing such a system will be so high that it wouldn't make sense financially, at least not in the foreseeable future. The banks and other credit card issuers accept that there are some losses they will have, they try to minimise/control them

Re: Why Blockbuster looks at your ID.

2005-07-09 Thread Edgar Danielyan
May we see the back of that envelope? Upgrade to EMV (chip & PIN) here in UK reportedly costs around 1.1 billion pounds (around $1.9 billion), and that is simply an upgrade to the existing infrastructure and only in a single country. To fundamentally change the system would require tens of billions