{"id":543,"date":"2007-07-26T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-26T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2007-07-26T05:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-26T11:17:00","slug":"off-topic-how-effective-is-chip-and-pin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/07\/off-topic-how-effective-is-chip-and-pin\/","title":{"rendered":"Off topic: How effective is chip and pin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">L<\/span>ast night, having completed an excellent course in <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">computer assisted reporting<\/span> led by <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/p\/aron_pilhofer\/index.html\">Aron Pilhofer<\/a> and <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ire.org\/\">David Donald<\/a>, I was having a well deserved drink in a neighbourhood bar when my wallet and mobile phone were stolen. Within half an hour I had called up to cancel the cards, shut down the phone, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But my credit card had already been used to withdraw first \u00a320 and then \u00a3200 from an ATM. I never use my credit card for cash withdrawals and I hadn\u2019t used my card in the bar. (As anyone who knows me will testify, I rarely get my cash out.)<\/p>\n<p>But how safe is chip and pin technology if &#8211; in the space of thirty minutes &#8211; someone can crack the code and help themselves? I guess my answer would be &#8211; not very&#8230;and I\u2019ve just tried to call the police and report it for the &#8211; let\u2019s call it umpteenth &#8211; time. To no avail. So officially it isn\u2019t even a crime. (Update: just managed to report it online.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, having completed an excellent course in computer assisted reporting led by Aron Pilhofer and David Donald, I was having a well deserved drink in a neighbourhood bar when my wallet and mobile phone were stolen. Within half an hour I had called up to cancel the cards, shut down the phone, etc. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}