Posts by enormous c word

Contactless card fraud? Easy. All you need is an off-the-shelf scanner

Re: Attack of the clones

@sugarbear,

Hello....

...Apparently sugarbear has run away in the face of common sense and the harsh realities of life away from 'care bear land'

Re: Who's laughing now???

Contactless cards are a bad idea - they're easy to scam and lets face it, most of us have several cards, so at £30 per transaction per card, that soon adds up to £100's just by some scammer with a scanner brushing by you and swiping your card details.

So the aluminium/tinfoil+duct tape home-made wallets do work and if you are careful, cutting off a corner of your card should break the RFID aerial. But if you just contact your bank and demand a non-contactless card they are obliged to send you a replacement one - that way you can make it plain you dont want any contactless (securityless) cards.

Thing is - this is a scam - by the banks, they don't want you to pay for stuff with cash because they can't control the transaction, they want to skim a little bit off every transaction in micro-fees. If there is fraud, they will simply refund it and recoup the costs through lower-interest rates and/or bank charges - so as always you the consumer lose.

Contacless sucks - call your bank and demand a conventional card.

Facebook fails to block NY DA's fat warrants for profiles of suspected September 11 fraudsters

Jeeze, I really don't understand the problem here. I mean, if its on Facebook its public, why don't the NYPD just *friend* them, and get the Judge and Jury to do the same - no need for a warrant then - simples!!!

I can imagine it now... sitting at home trawling Bacefook for kitty pictures... and suddenly:

"NYPD sent you a friend request

"Judge Judy" sent you a friend request

(and 12 other brand-new friends)

Big Blue bafflement: Anyone in IBM Storage know which way is up?

Re: protect profit by sacrificing revenue

The difference between revenue and profit is simply that revenue is money you see and profit is money you keep. Simples. They are not related in any way.

Minister for Fun opens consultation on future of the BBC

Too many Channels ...

There are generally speaking too many channels of crap: Celebrity Gravy-Train Crap, Dumbed Down Reality-TV Crap and imagination-less derivatives of the former. The BBC have spread themselves too thinly in the interests of diversity and would be better served focussing their energies on 2 or 3 TV channels and 2 or 3 Radio Channels and creating original content that can be re-sold to the rest of the world or repeated ad-nauseum on the commercial channels.

The BBC Licencing Model is an absolutely unbelievable gift from UK Licence Fee paying TV users and the BBC squander too much of it on an enormous *Civil-Service* of middle managers and contracted production companies.

Re: Open up BBC TV to the world

And add to that the rest of the English speaking world....

150,000 angry Redditors demand Chairman Pao's head on a spike

Really?

Honestly who cares? Will anyone notice once Reddit have gone?