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What happens when your chilling in a coffee shop and your arch nemesis orders a latte with your name?
by wolfish 15y ago
What happens when your chilling in a coffee shop and your arch nemesis orders a latte with your name?
- notatoad 15y agothe article specifically mentions this problem. you should try reading it.
- dredmorbius 15y agoOk, so I'll raise the ante. What happens when you're chillin' on the street, and your arch nemesis has hacked your favorite coffeeshop's PoS system, nabbing your account details, phone identifier, and photo, and proceeds to stalk you all over town from a distance of 100 feet?
- corin_ 15y agoWhat happens when your arch nemesis has hacked your favourite coffee shop's PoS system right now and proceeds to steal all the credit card numbers that go through it... how is the new scenario any worse?
- dredmorbius 15y agoAs weak as credit card numbers are as a security measure, the countermeasure defense is largely for credit-card issuers (and/or the processing networks) to monitor traffic very heavily for anything vaguely resembling fraudulent activity. Cardholders are largely protected by law (though merchants aren't). The special sauce here is the location tracking. The system seems to assume that vendors are at a fixed location, but there's probably no reason a mobile device couldn't be constructed that functions as a PoS, and with hacked data/credentials, it could be used for tracking purposes. Say, with a number of confederates (or a good make-up job), charging stuff to your account while you're in the area. Or insert intelligence, criminal, stalker, jealous ex, etc., scenarios. I'm increasingly in favor of cold hard cash for transactions rather than divulging my personal information in ever increasing amounts and rates.
- minikomi 15y agoCarefully take out the blow dart gun...