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    Breakthrough in wireless technology

    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?
    Feist - 1234. One camera, one take, no editing. Superb. How they did it
    Feist - I Feel It All
    Feist - The Bad In Each Other (Later With Jools Holland)

    #2
    [insert tumbleweed here mods. this one's died on its arse]
    Feist - 1234. One camera, one take, no editing. Superb. How they did it
    Feist - I Feel It All
    Feist - The Bad In Each Other (Later With Jools Holland)

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      #3
      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.

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        #4
        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.

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          #5
          Originally posted by PAH View Post
          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?

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            #6
            http://www.channelregister.co.uk/200..._pin_machines/

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              #7
              More worrying is this one...

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

              Reported in August!!!

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                #8
                Originally posted by Churchill View Post
                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!

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                  #9
                  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!
                  ǝןqqıʍ

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                    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...
                    Older and ...well, just older!!

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