Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bleagh. With every reduction in the number of "clicks" needed to buy > something things get less secure. Not true. The new EMV debit and credit cards are way more secure. No more clicks than before, but way more secure. But boy are they slow to transact! It's like we are back in 1990 again. I almost expect to hear a 1200 BAUD dial up modem connect, with a sound like a duck choking on a kazoo, as Dave Barry put it. And then the vendors can say "OMG we totally didn't see this coming! These > security problems were entirely unexpected!" Believe me, they don't say that kind of thing any more. 40 years ago maybe they did, but there have been way too many lawsuits and billions of dollars stolen since then. (I should explain that 40 years ago I was working for one of those vendors, writing technical manuals for the equipment. That's how I know about some of the early equipment headaches and security issues.) - Jed
