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Is the Chip and PIN Broken? A Controversial Solution to Bank Card Security

Chip and Pin

Angie Walls
(photo by Petr Kratochvil from Shutterstock)
Published in Mocana’s DeviceLine Blog, January 25, 2011

 

What is the security gadget that UK bankers don’t want you to know about? A University of Cambridge student has published a paper on a new device that can protect card-holding consumers from the dangers of hackers, resulting in a financial trade group demanding that it be removed from the public.