[ExI] another one of my questionable ideas

[William Flynn Wallace]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 2:03 PM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Far too much incompatible infrastructure.  The secured cards could not
> be used, and thus would not be used, and thus would fail to fix the
> problem.
>

Well they changed over tons of equipment when they put that little
doohickey on the card - insert instead of swipe.  I suppose it all depends
on how much theft they can stand - there has to be a better way.

bill w

> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 7:19 AM William Flynn Wallace
> <foozler83 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > People, well a lot of people, are pretty dumb, and give money to
> Nigerian princes etc.  Billions including all the scams and credit card
> number stealers?
> >
> > Well, what if nobody knew his credit card number?  It was only on the
> card as asterisks - or simply not at all - just a chip there.  What about
> buying over the phone?  Then you use LastPass or something to beep the
> numbers (and letters and ???).
> >
> > Then the bad guys would have to hack software, not vulnerable people -
> not nearly as easy.
> >
> > I am not awake yet and so cannot see problems, though I expect this
> group will find them if they are here.
> >
> > bill w
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