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What about the most vulnerable part of credit cards, the fact that the card information is printed right on the front (and back) of the card? Someone in line a
by heywire 14y ago
What about the most vulnerable part of credit cards, the fact that the card information is printed right on the front (and back) of the card? Someone in line at the grocery store with a pen camera in their pocket can catch a glimpse of the front and back of a card. That is generally enough information to use the card online.
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- mikeash 14y agoHow will you use that card information, though? The printed information isn't sufficient to create a new magnetic stripe (the CVV1 code in the magstripe isn't printed on the card). Using the card info online requires knowing the cardholder's address. If you can find someone still using an imprinter, then that would work, but so would completely made-up data.
- elithrar 14y ago> Using the card info online requires knowing the cardholder's address. US (and Canada, UK) issued cards are verified against the billing address (AVS), in most cases. In other countries (e.g. Australia), this is not the case. The card number and CVC are typically sufficient; you can put any other address you would like. My Amazon billing address is my work address, which is not the address my bank has (my home).
- mikeash 14y agoInteresting. Any idea why they don't verify the billing address there? Seems like it would be no harder than doing it in the US.