chip-and-pin in comment and analysis
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Comment Tamper-proof' chip and PIN terminals hacked Pin hackers Screens are too small and surfing is too clumsy. Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. [06 Mar 2008]
Locking down financial security
Comment This year, banks including Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland group gave customers their own chip-and-pin card readers to validate internet transactions. How many non-technical consumers are adept at managing PINs and passwords? [24 Dec 2007]
Minority Report: A greener Apple
Comment Find out all about chip and PIN, Itil, wi-fi and more in our Cheat Sheets. From the original script for Jaws by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb In his missive Jobs defended Apple's position and said the company will be measured on its performance. [23 Aug 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Wary of wikis? Cynical about Second Life?
Comment Find out all about Chip and PIN, Itil, wi-fi and more in our Cheat Sheets. Tech is playing an ever larger role in our work and home lives. So be careful how you choose to limit access to wikis, blogs, social networking, virtual worlds and more... [14 Jun 2007]
The McCue Interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots
Comment About two-thirds of that total investment - just over £200m - went into the in-store IT infrastructure, which includes a new pharmacy system that will link to the NHS' e-prescription service, 15,000 new touchscreen tills to replace the 17-year-old... [25 Apr 2007]
Leader: Should we now doubt chip and PIN?
Leader This week we've heard that chip and PIN payments at Shell petrol stations across the UK have been stopped. Cue doom and gloom from the doubters who've said all along that chip and PIN was always going to prove problematic. [09 May 2006]
Banks aiming to alleviate online banking fears
Comment After chip and PIN was introduced in 2005, fraud in the high street fell but clearly migrated to other areas, such as phone, mail and online transactions. With the current options including an unattached token device, a USB token, a sleeved-reader... [28 Mar 2006]
Leader: Shoppers ain't James Bond
Leader Chip and PIN takes long enough when you're waiting for someone to buy a 75p croissant but imagine the kafuffle with biometrics. Banks and credit card companies are being pulled in two directions. On the one side they want faster, more convenient... [14 Mar 2006]
Leader: Gordon Brown joins the IT crowd
Leader The Tories have begun to take pot shots at the government on tech-related issues as wide-ranging as DNA databases, chip and PIN and digital mapping, while the Lib Dems have been solid in their opposition to ID cards. [14 Feb 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 10.02.06
Round-Up That's right, chip and PIN is going to become compulsory. The team marketing the move to compulsory chip and PIN appear to have seized upon Valentine's Day as a memorable date to which they can tie the launch. [10 Feb 2006]
Leader: Keep ahead of the fraudsters
Leader The introduction of chip and PIN technology has made it tougher to use stolen or faked cards to buy things on the high street. The flip side of that, of course, is that in countries that don't use chip and PIN the additional security of UK cards is... [07 Feb 2006]
Leader: ID cards victory for silicon.com campaign
Leader Home Office explanations as to how the technology behind the scheme will work and how the data will be used and what databases will be linked up have also been inconsistent and unsatisfactory, ranging from a full-on compulsory national ID card... [17 Jan 2006]
Leader: Chip and PIN won't solve the fraud problem
Leader It's great news that chip and PIN is stopping fraud on the high street, as shown by the latest figures. Of course it makes sense for UK banks to wait until we have a standard based on chip and PIN so that the same authentication technology... [08 Nov 2005]
Leader: UK still playing catch-up
Leader Take chip and PIN. The Australians and the French had chip and PIN long before the UK, where it's still thought of as a relatively new concept and won't go into full effect until next year (when deadlines will mean UK cardholders will no longer be... [11 Oct 2005]
Leader: Don't wait too long for online security
Leader And despite the odd hiccup, the rollout of chip and PIN must be rated as one of the most successful IT projects of the last few years, especially considering how big the total project has been because these cards are so central to our everyday lives. [27 Sep 2005]
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