[Leica] SD cards & magnets or quietest bag - Mark

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

All outstanding cards in India are being changed to the RFID ones with a 6
digit pin by June 30th.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> 
wrote:

> We just researched this subject for our use....
>
> Physically, there are 3 types of Credit Cards... Plus the Debit Versions,
> that only differ in where they take the money from.
>
> This is from a US perspective... foreign cards are more advanced!
>
> 1) Normal old Credit cards.. like the ones they issued to me in 1970... Mag
> strip on the back, signature spot on back, signature required.  ( No one
> checks signatures any more...they want to see ID....)
>
> 2) Card with Smart Chip... Signature required... The only type of Smart
> Card
> you can get in the USA ( with 1 exception, which I forget who offers).  Not
> really too advanced over #1, but Europe can use them, sometimes.  Sometimes
> not useable in Europe's automated ( or not) ATM or other credit card
> readers....
>
> 3) Smart Card with PIN....  Absolutely the most secure card.  Swipe+ use
> PIN, no signature required... and what Europe has used for the past XXX
> years....
>
> The Smart Chip is an RFID chip, that allows for non-contact reading.
>
> All the talk about reading these Smart Chips while walking by a bad guy is
> in the US.... Paranoia....  If it were a real risk, Europe would not use
> them....
>
> For the Bankers among us... if the absolutely most secure solution is #3,
> and the Banks complain about fraud, why do they not change over?
>
> BTW, it took over an hour with CITI Bank to figure out what kind of card
> they were providing us with and 2 tries to get it right...  We will see if
> it works in Europe....at all....
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>
>
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