From: john boyle 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.legal
Subject: Re: Chip and pin fraud.
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:30:57 +0100

In message <3lvil0F13njvlU1@individual.net>, Tumbleweed 
 writes
>> For non C&P this is true. But for C&P cards the ability to clone is
>> reduced very substantially indeed. I

>Someone posted a reference recently which appeared to show that the stripe
>can easily be cloned.

I dont think anybody disagrees with that. That is one of the man reasons 
C&P is with us.

>IIRC because many banks dont check all the strip, just
>some of it. Was US though so may only apply there and not to C&P...though I
>dont see why you wouldnt be able to clone the strip, what would stop you?
>
>here we are
>http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=14058
>
I dont see how the cloning of the strip is relevant to C&P.
-- 
John Boyle