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From: "John R Levine" <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com>
To: "Mary Barnes" <mary(_dot_)h(_dot_)barnes(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
Cc: <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 11:04 PM
The machines want a Chip+PIN card. This amazing spreadsheet at Google
Docs has every Chip+PIN or Chip+Signature (not as good) card available
from US banks. It's a bit late to be getting one for the IETF, but
it'll
come in handy in Berlin.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ani-u3tGk5hedGRvcE1ELVg5Uml
GZk01SHZvTUMxdUE
Chip and pin has been punted as the answer to all fraud problems for so
long in the UK now that you do get businesses that refuse to take
chipless cards - although that is not likely in the touristy parts of
London which realise that not all countries have gone down that road..
The other quirk is one that came up on this list six months ago of
Faraday cages, given the aggressive rollout in the UK of contactless
cards. Here it is not that you need the technology, rather that the
technology will try to debit your account without you noticing, as I
witnessed while queueing (another quirk of the UK) last week when the
terminal reported that the amount was too great for the card because the
limit for contactless operation is currently 20 pounds and the
transaction was for 50 - the customer was waiting to insert his card for
chip and pin operation but the contactless machine had got there first.
If you have more than one card, then this can be a problem
Tom Petch.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
PS: I have a Chip+PIN Amex card, which was a major pain in the patoot
to
get.