I am sure I read some place, a customer was given a forged note in their money from a bank. While still at the cash window the customer noticed one was a forgery, but the cashier refused to change it, instead with held it for being a forgery. Hard to believe I know, as I am sure they could simply review the CCTV...
I've always found ATM's to distribute a mixture. If you want £20 it will give two tenners, if you want £40 it will give a £20 and a £10. The only time it will fail to do this it kindly displays on the screen that it has run out of tenners.
If I want £40 and the machine gives me a £20 and a £10, me and the ATM operating company will be having words.
Doh! I did have a similar occurrence years ago, I requested £20 from a Barclays ATM on a Saturday afternoon, it only gave me £10. Monday lunchtime I went into the Barclays near work to report it and request the £10 I hadn't received. They gave me the £10 then tried to charge me for being overdrawn because they didn't dis-count the £10 I was originally missing.
Contactless is brilliant for these small amounts. Yesterday I had to run an errant and visited three shops each a relatively small amount, quick tap of my Phone and finger print scan and off we go. Retailer happy, I am happy not having my pockets filled with change, and a super quick transaction.
I think that is the thing that keeps setting my missus's phone off. She has her card in a bag next to her phone, it makes a funny noise now and again
Shouldn't do by itself, well not on an iPhone. Don't know about Android with NFCI think that is the thing that keeps setting my missus's phone off. She has her card in a bag next to her phone, it makes a funny noise now and again
She has the Nokia Lumia, if the card is near her phone, her phone makes a funny noise. We assumed it is trying to connect with the card, it only makes that funny noise when card is close to phone..
Going to tell Missus to check the settings
This Luddite is still very suspicious of this type of technology
It seems that fingerprints are not as unique as first thought.
No argument here on that, as they are two totally different entities, ones chemical and one's physical
Basically most evidence is "safe" until disproved ..
As I said one is physical one is chemical, so again, as it said, no, its no logical to assume that at all.
Agreed, but there will always be a margin of error, where human intervention is involved.
and always will be
As I said one is physical one is chemical, so again, as it said, no, its no logical to assume that at all.
Agreed, but there will always be a margin of error, where human intervention is involved.
But either way, going back to the point of the post, I said
and always will be
Agreed they will always be subtle differences.
Seems we are in agreement
Is that right though? I thought the recent case was about whether McBride was unfairly dismissed because of the McKie case, not about whether the identification of McKie's fingerprint was correct or not. Not the same thing at all and, as far as I aware, the ruling that McKie's prints were incorrectly identified still stands.
My way of thinking is the more E-devices you use to connect to your funds, the greater the risk increase
I worked as a manager, briefly in retail some years ago, ( briefly was more than enough I can tell you!)Oh and never make the customer feel like they are causing inconvenience, even if they are.
So long as you smile at the customer as you greet them, and never let on how you really feelI worked as a manager, briefly in retail some years ago, ( briefly was more than enough I can tell you!)
I hung a sign in the staff room that said, this job would be great, if it wasn't for the customers.
The regional manager thought it was funny as hell, but still made me take it down
Compared to the alternative with a normal backcard they are a million times safer
and the retailer doesn't get your card details ever. No skimming possible.
Is that right though? I thought the recent case was about whether McBride was unfairly dismissed because of the McKie case, not about whether the identification of McKie's fingerprint was correct or not. Not the same thing at all and, as far as I aware, the ruling that McKie's prints were incorrectly identified still stands.
Whether fingerprints are unique or not isn't really the issue though. It is whether they are reliably identified, either by machine (ie a phone) or person (the fingerprint "experts"). Bottom like is that both can get it wrong and have been proved to get it wrong time and time again. (same with dna tests, witness statements etc etc)
Not of this really the point though, I don't think there has been a payment method invented that cannot be fooled - it really comes down to what you find most convenient and an acceptable risk.
btw. Those saying they never use cash would have been screwed if they had been with me today. Some fault meant all car park ticket machines had gone to cash only mode - I wasn't getting out without my stack of £1 coins.
If you'd have waited, and the cash facility had continued to be unavailable, you'd have exited for free as the car park operators would be obliged to permit your departure without payment.
indeed. Of they might have told me to go to to a cashpoint. Or to some obscure machine at the far side of the car park that I didn't know exist. Either way it would have wasted time. But as it was I put a £1 coin in the machine and was out of there in 30 seconds. Cash is convenient at times......
No, but there is an electronic fingerprint ( there's that word againCompared to the alternative with a normal backcard they are a million times safer
) and I'm sure it won't take long for someone ( probably a spotty 10 year old kid) to hack into it or receive the signal, with some ingenious device, that may or may not already exist.
Everything is hackable, security is layered like an onion. Using this kind of technology actually ads about three more layer around it compared to utilising a normal bank card. I'm quite happy to use it.No, but there is an electronic fingerprint ( there's that word again
But each time you add an e-device no matter how good the security, you are adding another risk.
