ATMs to operate without a card

[kingcook]

BBC News - ATMs to operate without a card

RBS said that its new system would help customers who had forgotten their bank cards

Solution: Don't forget your cards/wallet next time you go out.

or who wished to send cash to family members in a hurry.

Who TF would be in that much of a hurry to send money to family members, that it couldn't wait half an hour until they got home?

[MarillionFan]

Cracking idea. Why do you need a bloody card???

[TimberWolf]

Cracking idea. Why do you need a bloody card???

The three main methods of identification: What you have (e.g. a card), what you know (e.g. pin) and what you are (e.g. fingerprint). Ideally you need two out of three.

The present system of card and pin being usurped by an authenticated phone (the phone acting as the card) and the use of a longer pin number. Seems relatively okay as long as the phone's pin number isn't the same as the banking pass code and the pin number's not stored on the phone.

[BrilloPad]

Its a way of encouraging people to spend more.

[TimberWolf]

It's the rise of the smartphone.

[Diver]

I use a JCB

[scooby]

The three main methods of identification: What you have (e.g. a card), what you know (e.g. pin) and what you are (e.g. fingerprint). Ideally you need two out of three.

The present system of card and pin being usurped by an authenticated phone (the phone acting as the card) and the use of a longer pin number. Seems relatively okay as long as the phone's pin number isn't the same as the banking pass code and the pin number's not stored on the phone.

The PC and H&S people will claim that using finger prints may pass diseases...

[mudskipper]

The PC and H&S people will claim that using finger prints may pass diseases...

And mobile phones give you cancer.

[Old Hack]

And mobile phones give you cancer.

...and driving diesels, all you tight non petrolheads...

[minestrone]

You can't chop lines with your smart phone.