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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Strange how some people appear to be against chip and pin and feel it will increase crime, when it's made a major impact into cutting card fraud/crime in other countries.
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A symptom of 'Agenda Journalism', which is something we suffer a lot of in this country. You choose your standpoint on an issue, then go and compile a report that supports it, while glossing over (or ignoring entirely) anything that doesn't.
I saw the edition of
Tonight with lots of journalists and the odd cameo by Trevor McDonald in question, and I was appalled by the shoddy standard of journalism. The woman being interviewed was pointing out that the so-called deficiencies of Chip and Pin are actually deficiences in the old swipe-and-sign system that has to run in parallel during the changeover phase, but the hack was clearly only interested in pursuing the pre-agreed editorial line, that 'this chip and pin thing isn't all it's cracked up to be'.
Bizarrely, they backed all this up by demonstrating how easy it is to clone a card, not by copying the chip but by *swiping* it. The logical fallacy in question here is, I believe, the Straw Man.