From: "r_mervart" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Chip and PIN, how secure is the transaction?
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:24:16 GMT


"Alex"  wrote in message
news:Xns95EDBE7AF2791alexl2@130.133.1.4...
> Without a hint of irony, "jt1uk@aol.com"  astounded
uk.finance
> on 29 Jan 2005 by announcing:
>
> > I find the design of the chip and pin terminals rather surprising
> > having seen a number of older customers struggling to bend and almost
> > fall  to their knees to enter their pin  on a keyboard which they
> > struggle to see.
>
> That's down to the siting choice of the merchant, not the design of the
> PINPads - especially those approved by RNIB.

If the security and privacy are important perhaps the positioning  should
not be
left to the merchant but should also require an approval?

Roman