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on Friday August 17 2018, @08:40AM
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SkimReaper, subject of a USENIX Security paper, detects most common card skimmers.
[...] At the USENIX Security Symposium here today, University of Florida researcher Nolen Scaife presented the results of a research project he undertook with Christian Peeters and Patrick Traynor to effectively detect some types of "skimmers"—maliciously placed devices designed to surreptitiously capture the magnetic stripe data and PIN codes of debit and credit cards as they are inserted into automated teller machines and point-of-sale systems. The researchers developed SkimReaper, a device that can sense when multiple read heads are present—a telltale sign of the presence of a skimmer.
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Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by nobu_the_bard on Friday August 17 2018, @01:47PM (3 children)
The chip's been in wide use in US urban areas for a few years now.
My first chip card was about five years ago. The first couple didn't last long (my first chip card lasted only about 4 months before the chip broke) but my last one survived about a year before I had to replace it. Merchants have been speeding up their handling of the chips gradually as well.
Rural areas and some small time businesses (taxis, etc) aren't using them a whole lot yet in my region. It takes a long time to deploy stuff out there sometimes.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Friday August 17 2018, @03:27PM (2 children)
When the chip on my card died after a couple years I had to replace the card. Most readers I use won't accept my card if I swipe it saying "use chip instead".
The only time I can swipe is if the reader has no chip (or, in almost every case, it has a chip reader but it is disabled).
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Friday August 17 2018, @05:49PM (1 child)
Being told to inset a swiped chip card is standard. In my experience, if a card reader has tried and failed to read a chip, and the reader asks for the card to be swiped, it will then ignore the "this card has a chip" bit on the magstrip. So trying the faulty chip each time before swiping work.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday August 20 2018, @12:09AM
Ahh, I get it. Thanks.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh