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by coleca 11y ago
I guess I'm not surprised by the lack of EMV capable card readers I still see in the US. Having worked in this space in the past, I am always checking out the payment terminals at the stored I visit. I've even seen some larger m
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by coleca 11y ago
Many retail (brick and mortar chains) use them extensively. Way back in the day, that was what you did when you wanted to process "big data" in the 80's and 90's. Those systems became so ingrained into the business proce
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by coleca 11y ago
$80? SmartCity charged us over $1200 for three days of T1 Internet access because that was the only way we would be allowed to have Wifi for a demo we were doing in our booth in MInneapolis according to their rules. Even after paying all t
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by coleca 11y ago
I believe the EFF and the other consumer groups are grandstanding to get some publicity in this case. I have listened to almost all of these sessions that the NTIA facilitated, and the company I work for even presented at one of them last
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by coleca 11y ago
It's more likely that the Cards had a Excel file "Master_Passwords.xls" (or similar) with all his department's passwords listed in it on a shared department folder. No encryption, hashing, etc. Maybe they used Excel pa
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by coleca 11y ago
Yes. In large scale retailers, the payment terminals would either be connected via Ethernet to the private point of sale (POS) network in the store where they could only talk to the POS controllers, or they would be connected via USB or cu
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by coleca 12y ago
Actually, they built AWS as a business on its own right from the start and only later moved Amazon.com onto AWS. http://www.networkworld.com/article/2891297/cloud-computing/...
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by coleca 12y ago
Not sure I understand how an RFID system would do anything to stop private companies from using ALPR. If anything it would be easier and more accurate for them and they could pick up far more plates per second since they wouldn't be l
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by coleca 12y ago
Here's a few I enjoy: AWS Podcast: http://aws.amazon.com/awspodcast/ The FrontSide Podcast: http://frontside.io/ The New Stack Analysts: http://thenewstack.io/ Software Defined Ta
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by coleca 12y ago
Agreed. GigaOM was also a terrific source for news about Cloud Computing. Derrick and Barb Darrow had a great podcast as well that covered both topics, The Structure Show. An extremely entertaining and well produced podcast that had some
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by coleca 12y ago
Exactly. I've been a big fan of John Willis for awhile and the challenge that he, Gene Kim, and others have taken on to fix enterprise IT culture should be commended. They hit the nail on the head when they state that DevOps isn&#x27
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by coleca 12y ago
Yes, there is a standard for payments on the PIN pads. However, the real push for ISIS/Softcard was that they could do more than payments. They wanted to be able to push coupons through the PIN pads to the POS from their app. That w
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by coleca 12y ago
If Google Wallet was to continue to exist this was inevitable because Softcard (formerly ISIS) had locked up the usage of the secure element inside all the Android phones coming from all the US carriers except Sprint and its MVNOs. And ISI
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by coleca 12y ago
When I worked for Royal Ahold they used a 13 period calendar. The date logic was much worse to manage because you still had the rest of the world and every programming language and database that used the Gregorian calendar. We had a single
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by coleca 12y ago
Since the site seems to be down, I'll mention that there was an article on Medium covering this artists' work a few days ago: https://medium.com/matter/this-is-what-your-face-looks-like-... Seems like what he
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by coleca 12y ago
Thanks for the mention. CTO of Kairos here. We offer a web API that will perform 2d to 3d facial recognition which helps greatly when dealing with natural world images as opposed to mug shot type of controlled imagery. We turn the 2d image
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by coleca 12y ago
CurrentC is doomed. The premise is that retailers will leverage the ACH rails to bypass the fees charged by the card brands (MC, Visa, Amex and Discover). This is making the huge assumption that these same retailers who couldn't keep t
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by coleca 12y ago
Yes that was in the lengthy contract. They weren't using a radio jammer, but using techniques just like were described in the article. We tried getting our gear setup and couldn't get anything working, even trying to use Internet
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by coleca 12y ago
I agree with you, but I was talking about the WiFi bandwidth not your 3G/4G bandwidth. There is only so much airspace for all that WiFi traffic when there are tens of thousands of devices using the same spectrum in such a small enclos
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by coleca 12y ago
FWIW I have seen this in practice at other convention centers (not owned by Marriott). We attended a convention (as an exhibitor) this year in MN and had to spend $10k for 3 days of Internet connectivity over WiFi. Your choices were to pa
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by coleca 12y ago
Wasn't this stolen from a dealership? Surprised they wouldn't have it turned on before they sold the car.
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by coleca 13y ago
It wouldn't be a best practice to isolate the POS environments from all the other internal systems. Pricing, items, taxes, offers, coupons, etc. are all separate systems on the corporate network. They all need to communicate to the POS
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by coleca 13y ago
I don't think the Target POS terminals were on the Internet. The Brian Krebs article stated that the hacker compromised an externally facing web server and used that as a bridge to get into the corporate (private) network. Since the P
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by coleca 13y ago
The interval Target held the cards was probably longer than a few seconds. Depending on how they do settlement they may need to keep the PAN around longer until they settle the transactions. Some retailers do it real time (right after auth)
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by coleca 13y ago
Site seems down (Nginx bad gateway error)
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by coleca 13y ago
If you put the phone in airplane mode as the article suggests, I doubt AirPlay to the AppleTV would work because it needs the Wifi radio that would be turned off at that point.
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by coleca 14y ago
These calculations of the airlines "losses" on these pass holders strikes me as similar to the software industry's claims of billions of losses due to piracy, counting all pirated copies as lost revenue, even if the pirate would have never