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Re: UK: Dutch Petrol Firm Shell Suspends 'Chip-and-Pin' Payments
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 22:13:54 +0100 (BST)
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Dude VanWinkle wrote:
On 5/7/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:On Sun, 7 May 2006, Fergie wrote:Via The BBC. [snip] Petrol giant Shell has suspended chip-and-pin payments in 600 UK petrol stations after more than £1m was siphoned out of customers' accounts. Eight people, including one from Guildford, Surrey, and another from Portsmouth, Hants, have been arrested in connection with the fraud inquiry. The Association of Payment Clearing Services (Apacs) said the fraud related to just one petrol chain. Shell said it hoped to reintroduce chip-and-pin as soon as possible.And they're hoping people will use it.Ok, whats a Chip-And-Pin? Is that like Fish-And-Chip?
Yes. Chips have two possible states, soggy or burned, and it's possible to encode information onto then using this scheme. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- UK: Dutch Petrol Firm Shell Suspends 'Chip-and-Pin' Payments Fergie (May 07)
- Re: UK: Dutch Petrol Firm Shell Suspends 'Chip-and-Pin' Payments Drsolly (May 07)
- Re: UK: Dutch Petrol Firm Shell Suspends 'Chip-and-Pin' Payments Kevin McAleavey (May 07)
- Re: UK: Dutch Petrol Firm Shell Suspends 'Chip-and-Pin' Payments Dude VanWinkle (May 09)
- Re: UK: Dutch Petrol Firm Shell Suspends 'Chip-and-Pin' Payments Drsolly (May 09)
- Re: UK: Dutch Petrol Firm Shell Suspends 'Chip-and-Pin' Payments Drsolly (May 07)