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Originally Posted by Matth
There was another program, where the "hacker" read the stripe from a "chip and pin" card, used a program to reset the "chip & pin" bit and then wrote it to the stripe on another plain card.
Card + pin (no chip) worked perfectly.
The chip itself, is a whole new ballgame for security, but at the moment, it can be 100% BYPASSED!
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Rubbish!! The pin isnt stored on the magnetic stripe
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Originally Posted by Chris T
At Tesco's checkout on Saturday ... I went to put my shiny new chip'n'pin card in the reader and the girl said 'it's alright, I'll do it.' She took the card, swiped it in the old fashioned way, and then asked me to use the keypad to enter my PIN.
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They do that as M&S too apparently