[ExI] another one of my questionable ideas

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 18:58:32 UTC 2018


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.
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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