Re: [WISPA] Wireless Credit Cards

2007-03-27 Thread Dawn DiPietro
George, In Japan they have been doing this for quite awhile now. Regards, Dawn George Rogato wrote: Courtesy of ATT wireless. Just wave your cell phone at the cash register! What will they think of next? -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe:

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Credit Cards

2007-03-27 Thread George Rogato
Imagine a hacker type that could just drive downtown Tokyo and charge everyones cell phone at the same time. I bet they could rack up so much money, they couldn't move it fast enough. Dawn DiPietro wrote: George, In Japan they have been doing this for quite awhile now. Regards, Dawn

Re: [WISPA] Wireless Credit Cards

2007-03-27 Thread David E. Smith
George Rogato wrote: Imagine a hacker type that could just drive downtown Tokyo and charge everyones cell phone at the same time. As Dawn mentioned, this has been big in Japan for a while, and AFAIK nothing like this has happened yet. Usually, you do have to confirm (via pressing buttons on