The Last Ditch: The Devil's Kitchen: ChipPin' away at fraud

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Thomas Sowell
Many have argued that capitalism does not offer a satisfactory moral message. But that is like saying that calculus does not contain carbohydrates, amino acids, or other essential nutrients. Everything fails by irrelevant standards
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Nationalism cannot exist in a conflict-free condition; it cannot exist as a thing devoid of grudges and claims. Wherever the nationalism of one group rears its head, immediately, as if from beneath the ground, this group's enemies will spring up.
Richard Lindzen (climate scientist, MIT)
Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life.
Edward R. Murrow
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Mark Twain
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Frederic Bastiat
And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty.
AA Gill
But don’t for a moment imagine that the bicycle-riding, organic-hedgerow-grazing, self-denying, 40-watt miserablists are in fact selfless crusaders for the common good. Never underestimate the sustaining pleasure in a hair shirt. Just look at George Monbiot, and witness a man who couldn’t be happier about the imminent demise of life as we know it. It’s given him purpose, prestige and celebrity: without global warming he’d be a geography teacher.
John W. Gardner
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Gary Bushell
The Green Party will go from green to red faster than a frog in a blender.
Tom Paine
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.

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Friday, November 10, 2006

The Devil's Kitchen: ChipPin' away at fraud

Link: The Devil's Kitchen: ChipPin' away at fraud.

DK's mum is on the campaign trail. She has discovered that chip and pin details are retained in the store machine's memory for 40 minutes after your transaction. This is, supposedly, to allow the store to make late charges and corrections discovered after you have left. It is a gaping hole in your card's security, and it is amazing that the banks do not feel the need to explain it in their terms and conditions.

Posted by Tom Paine on Friday, November 10, 2006 in Current Affairs | Permalink