From: "Peter Hucker" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance uk.legal
Subject: Re: Credit Cards/Chip and Pin/ATM withdrawls
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:08:51 -0000

On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:03:44 -0000, Tim  wrote:

>> >> Peter Hucker wrote
>> >> > You are the second most pessimistic guy I have seen.
>> >>
>> > "Alex" wrote
>> >> ITYM paranoid.
>> >
>> "Tim" wrote:
>> > If sending "plain text" PINs through the post is
>> > not a legitimate concern, then why don't the banks
>> > simply send PINs "plain text" in their notifications?
>> >
>> > If you're going to send the PIN "plain text" in the
>> > post, you might as well not bother covering the
>> > keypad when you enter the PIN at a terminal...!!
>>
> "Peter Hucker" wrote
>> At the terminal, the thief standing behind
>> you knows your PIN, and has access to
>> the card you just returned to your pocket.
>
> Funnily enough, I don't generally go around
> giving strangers "access" to my pocket!

Some people must - or pickpockets would not exist.

> In order to fraudulently use my card,
> the "thief standing behind" would need
> to subsequently steal the card from me.
> That's also all the person watching
> at the postbox would need to do!

Then don't take your card to the postbox.


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