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Originally Posted by Slipknot
so if you are going to steal cards, take them from commies  |
Cant take from someone who has nothing. (+ their cards are chipped for the most part)
Storing track data on magnetic strips on cards is super antique. Has no security and its basically a 70's - 80's throwback to times when the folks who could read the track data thought themselves smarter than the average person. Now you can buy card plastics online with holograms and have them delivered to your home. There was a recent bust in Florida on a guy running just such an operation.
Wallets that prevent scanning are a good measure for cards with mag strips. Better are cards which have a chip and the chips contains encrypted data. Granted its rather weak encryption however if posed with the option of scanning a mag strip card or having to actually do something and break encryption on a chipped card, the lower hanging fruit will always be picked first.
If you are concerned with cards/card based security I suggested reading a few of the articles on Krebs on Security. He does a REAL good job of explaining everything and makes it a point to not talk over peoples heads.
Further security, is to contact the 3 major credit reporting agencies and establish 1. monitoring 2. a secure password/passcode for the opening of any new credit accounts.
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Originally Posted by Slipknot
blaming the CC co. is like saying too bad it's your fault you left your rod on your roof while you stepped away for a moment, so I guess you might as well just hand to someone if you are going to leave something for a moment unattended 
maybe someday soon they will get it together and be able to be a step ahead of hackers and thieves. It is costing consumers millions |
The evil software (black pos) that is being used on these point of sales(pos) terminals has been available and in the open for quite awhile now(2008 or so). I feel that all in the chain of processing the card systems payments should be held accountable. No one wants to spend the money on security until something horrible happens and then its too late the reputational damage has been made.