From: clemenr@wmin.ac.uk
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Chip & Pin @ Tescos
Date: 18 Jun 2006 12:33:21 -0700
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Alex wrote:
> At 09:47:34 on 18/06/2006, clemenr@wmin.ac.uk delighted uk.finance by
> announcing:
>
> > I used a chip and pin debit card at a self-service checkout at Tescos.
> > Not only did I not have to put the card into a chip reader, I only
> > swiped the strip on the back of the card, it didn't even ask me for my
> > pin number.
>
> Good!  Why do you think it should ask for a PIN with a mag stripe read?

Security?

Cheers,

Ross-c