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Doesn't matter, peolpe are the weekest link
In our area, someone actually built a device from a salvaged stand alon ATM (the small ones you see at roadside restaurants and the like). They basicly set it up, after they altered it, at a small shopping mall in rural PA area. When people placed their cards in it to get cash, it copied the info on the stripe and recorded the pin they just enterd. It wouldn't give money, the screan would just show a message along the line of
"Transaction Temporarily Unavailable At This Time."

Neither security, nor anyone running the mall ever questioned it's apearance.

No sort of security device would help you in a situation like that, yet an iquisitive employee would have.
Posted by: John Zern   Posted on: 09/03/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Exactly theft by scanning and copying methods!  FirstNLastN | 09/01/05
Not a problem with smartcards  george_ou | 09/01/05
I'm guessing the thumb-drive has biometrics  daver_z | 09/02/05
Doesn't matter, peolpe are the weekest link  John Zern | 09/03/05
Wow. I gotta either  John Zern | 09/03/05
When are we gonna see...  thatguy888@... | 09/01/05
No thank you  Otto_Delete | 09/01/05
Ummm Otto  Squawkbox | 09/01/05
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but...  redtrain65 | 09/01/05
Not a problem  daver_z | 09/02/05
This facilitates that process  daver_z | 09/02/05
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Don't make excuses  Protector | 09/02/05
That's right!!!  Handrew | 09/02/05
yes!  Protector | 09/02/05
not mobile phones!  yeoman | 09/01/05
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