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Is it really all that different from losing your wallet? You can protect it with a pin number (http://www.google.com/wallet/how-it-works-security.html http://ww

by foob 15y ago

Is it really all that different from losing your wallet? You can protect it with a pin number (http://www.google.com/wallet/how-it-works-security.html http://www.google.com/wallet/how-it-works-security.html) so it sounds kind of like losing a debit card in that respect. You can still cancel your cards as soon as soon as you've noticed that you lost it as well. I wonder if the federal laws limiting credit card fraud liability to $50 will also apply here. If they do then I'm even less concerned about it.

rjd 15y ago
Yeah it is alot worse because my wallet needs signatures, has things like photo id on my credit card. One thing about that interface is how large the display is, it would be damned simple to catch someones PIN from a distance. I mean even current systems I see my friends PINs without trying ... on small covered terminals, not a 7" screen. A nice shiny phone would slip out of someones pocket a lot easier than wallet as well, I would hazard a guess its going to be a boon for pickpockets at events. By the time you could cancel the account they could of stripped hundreds of dollars. But thanks I will do some deeper reading around that link.
- DannoHung 15y ago
  No one ever checks your signature and most stores have customer swipe pads these days, so it's not like the cahsier even touches your card in a lot of transactions.
  - rjd 15y ago
    Is that in the US? seems very relaxed to other countries I have been in. I've been declined in London, Ireland, Austrlia, Thailand, and New Zealand over my signature. From emeory I have never been checked in Spain which is notorious for credit card fraud... and I dont remember getting checked in Germany either... although I may have used a standard debit card with a PIN while I was in Germany. Anyway I have my sig upside down on my card to create a point in time when I can proove fraud has begun (because travelling is a b/tch and after every trip I end up replacing my card and filling out forms to reclaim fraud). I often get pulled up and have to show a secondary ID, my passport or something to prove my upside signature is infact upside down.
- angryasian 15y ago
  i don't even sign the back of my card, because they are supposed to ask for a license at that point. Its very rare anybody even looks at the credit card. Even the signature doesn't matter anymore as most of the digital pads are ineligible what you write anyways. Its just swipe and done.

by foob 15y ago

rjd 15y ago

Yeah it is alot worse because my wallet needs signatures, has things like photo id on my credit card. One thing about that interface is how large the display is, it would be damned simple to catch someones PIN from a distance. I mean even current systems I see my friends PINs without trying ... on small covered terminals, not a 7" screen. A nice shiny phone would slip out of someones pocket a lot easier than wallet as well, I would hazard a guess its going to be a boon for pickpockets at events. By the time you could cancel the account they could of stripped hundreds of dollars. But thanks I will do some deeper reading around that link.

DannoHung 15y ago
No one ever checks your signature and most stores have customer swipe pads these days, so it's not like the cahsier even touches your card in a lot of transactions.
- rjd 15y ago
  Is that in the US? seems very relaxed to other countries I have been in. I've been declined in London, Ireland, Austrlia, Thailand, and New Zealand over my signature. From emeory I have never been checked in Spain which is notorious for credit card fraud... and I dont remember getting checked in Germany either... although I may have used a standard debit card with a PIN while I was in Germany. Anyway I have my sig upside down on my card to create a point in time when I can proove fraud has begun (because travelling is a b/tch and after every trip I end up replacing my card and filling out forms to reclaim fraud). I often get pulled up and have to show a secondary ID, my passport or something to prove my upside signature is infact upside down.
angryasian 15y ago
i don't even sign the back of my card, because they are supposed to ask for a license at that point. Its very rare anybody even looks at the credit card. Even the signature doesn't matter anymore as most of the digital pads are ineligible what you write anyways. Its just swipe and done.