Breakthrough in wireless technology

[ratewhore]

If this article is NOT a wind-up : isn't this a good reason for sensitive stuff to be made within the west only?

If the situation warrants it, supply and maintenance chains should be considered. I've looked at this a couple of times so it does happen.

Although the article does not ring true to me...

[DiscoStu]

I've been chatting to a woman in the know about these things. Apparently the devices are being modified to include some bits from a mobile phone, and send out card details by SMS, not some magical new wireless technology

The crims are posing as engineers and going into stores to swap out "faulty" chip & pin readers for their dodgy ones.

Scary stuff!

[BrilloPad]

More worrying is this one...

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200...minal_arrests/

Reported in August!!!

"raid on a counterfeit card factory in Birmingham"

atw has been seen since so they did not get him this time!

[Churchill]

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200..._pin_machines/

More worrying is this one...

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200...minal_arrests/

Reported in August!!!

[basshead]

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200..._pin_machines/

[BrilloPad]

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/004025.html

From Tesco to Pakistan using only a small chip in a card reader.

So why are we effing about with wireless G/N/P/S/ZZZZZZZzzzzzzz?

If this article is NOT a wind-up : isn't this a good reason for sensitive stuff to be made within the west only?

[PRC1964]

Blimey, how much do you reckon it'd cost to hire them to sort out PRC Towers?

I can't get wireless reception from the study to the living room, let alone to the shed.

If only I could get a wireless connection to the shed I'd never need to see the wife & kids again.

[TimberWolf]

Quite a humerous article I thought.

He added: “Small but intelligent criminal organisations are pulling off transnational, multicontinental heists that only a foreign intelligence service would have been able to do”.

Seems rather smallist, and belittles the capabilities of domestic intelligence agencies too.

[PAH]

[insert tumbleweed here mods. this one's died on its arse]

[PAH]

http://www.contractoruk.com/news/004025.html

From Tesco to Pakistan using only a small chip in a card reader.

So why are we effing about with wireless G/N/P/S/ZZZZZZZzzzzzzz?