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US credit cards outdated, less useful abroad, as 'chip and PIN' cards catch on - 1 views

www.creditcards.com/...d-smart-card-chip-pin-1273.php

2.1 Business employment chip pin bank credit cards

shared by dec_burke on 27 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Smart card transactions can be quicker, because the terminal and card communicate with each other -- the terminal verifying that the card is authentic and vice versa -- instead of the terminal having to communicate via Internet or wireless with the card issuer to verify that the card is real and hasn't been reported lost or stolen, says Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance, a nonprofit organization that works to promote the adoption of smart card technology.
  • Also, when a card leaves the cardholder's physical presence, it can be compromised, using a hand-held information-stealing device called a skimmer,
  • in which information is encoded into a magnetic stripe on the back of the card, and the newer so-called smart cards, which contain a computer chip that holds information.
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  • So-called card cloning also can be easier with magnetic stripe cards. Vanderhoof says: "With chip-and-PIN, it's nearly impossible to create a fake card."   
dec_burke

Robbins v. Lower Merion School District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 4 views

en.wikipedia.org/...._Lower_Merion_School_District

1.7 Surveillance 2.2 education

shared by dec_burke on 14 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Covert surveillance capability
  • dec_burke on 14 Feb 12
     
    Covert surveillance capability The school loaded each student's computer with LANrev's remote activation and tracking software. This included the now-discontinued "TheftTrack".[17][25][26][27] While TheftTrack was not enabled by default on the software, the program allowed the school district to elect to activate it, and to enable whichever of TheftTrack's surveillance options the school desired.[8] The school elected to enable TheftTrack to allow school district employees to secretly and remotely activate a tiny camera webcam embedded in the student's laptop, above the laptop's screen.[17][25][26][27] That allowed school officials to secretly take photos through the webcam, of whatever was in front of it and in its line of sight, and send the photos to the school's server.[8][17] The system snapped and sent a new photo every 15 minutes when the laptop was on, and TheftTrack was activated, though school employees could adjust the timeframe to as low as one-minute intervals.[8][28][29] LANrev disabled the webcams for all other uses (e.g., students were unable to use Photo Booth or video chat), so most students mistakenly believed that their webcams did not work at all.[30] In addition, TheftTrack allowed school officials to take screenshots (pictures of whatever was on the laptop's screen), and send them to the school's server.[8][17] Furthermore, a locating device would record the laptop's Internet (IP) address, enabling district technicians to discover which city the laptop was located and its internet service provider. (A subpoena to the provider would be required to pinpoint the exact location.) [29] In addition, LANrev allowed school officials to take snapshots of instant messages, web browsing, music playlists, and written compositions.[17][31] After sending the image to the school's server, the laptop was programmed to erase the "sent" file created on the laptop. That way, there would not be any trace by which students might realize that they were being watche
Declan Burke

With the wave of a hand, Intel wants to do away with passwords - Yahoo! News UK - 2 views

uk.news.yahoo.com/sswords-191352886--sector.html

passwords biometrics intel 1.2 Security

shared by Declan Burke on 17 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • A device using the technology would use built-in accelerometers to detect when a user puts it down, and would then log its owner off to keep unauthorized people from getting in
  • requires new software and biometric sensors built into consumer devices, but does not require the development of any new kinds of chips
  • Kissinger keeps promise to attend match
  • Declan Burke on 17 Sep 12
     
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dec_burke

BBC News - ID cards inevitable, says ex-minister Lord West - 8 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...uk-politics-24556198

news cards ukid biometircs privacy government

shared by dec_burke on 17 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • The cards were designed to hold personal biometric data on an encrypted chip, including name, a photograph and fingerprints.
  • The supporting National Identity Register was designed to hold up to 50 pieces of information.
  • The ID-card scheme was launched in October 2009 but cancelled 16 months later and the database destroyed.
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