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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: TechMan on April 20, 2017, 04:13:23 PM
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This is not going to end well for some people.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/04/20/mastercard-has-new-credit-card-with-fingerprint-scanner-in-it.html (http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/04/20/mastercard-has-new-credit-card-with-fingerprint-scanner-in-it.html)
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Great. Now I'm going to have to make sure I don't mix up the hacked off fingers and the cards that I've stolen...
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Great. Now I'm going to have to make sure I don't mix up the hacked off fingers and the cards that I've stolen...
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: That is what I was thinking.
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Great. Now I'm going to have to make sure I don't mix up the hacked off fingers and the cards that I've stolen...
Tie a string on your finger so you don't forget. =)
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In an effort to make payments a more seamless experience and improve security, Mastercard is testing out the new cards in South Africa,
:O You know if I were to try out a biometric security product I probably wouldn't go with a country having class warfare problems. I figure people who will toss a gas filled tire on your head and light that sucker up won't care much about pulling off a finger to use your credit card.
That issue aside it's stupid. Biometrics for security are bad because you can't swap them out if compromised. You cannot change your finger print. If somebody steals it, and that's not hard, you're screwed. If you want two-factor authentication then you want something you HAVE (the card) and something you KNOW (like a PIN) Problem is people are too stupid to remember their PIN so we end up with crap like chip & signature with the EMV rollout in the US or bunk like this.