got to love how the world is turning into something out of Deus Ex.

hackers are gona have a feald day with kit like this , the more "secure" you make a user feel in many ways the easer it is to exploit.

Its pretty much a given that sum-one will find a way to brake this within 6 months of its debue on the market untill we have decent mind reading kit the best an most secure things will just be remembering very long gibberish passwords and following basic practises for securing your data.


do like them though annything that has LED's on it is cool

so i get that this would cut down on the use of a physically stolen credit card, like if you lost your wallet...

but wouldn't help with your card number being taken online, or your card being copied by someone with a card reader. the 2 times i've had someone "compromise" my credit card they didn't have my physical card (and both times the bank detected it and blocked the transactions).

I'll hold out for the forehead chip.

Tongue-print barcodes...THAT'S what the future of the credit card really looks like!

Some decent ideas that work with the current systems. At some point, I'd prefer something about the size of a USB thumbdrive or keychain that uses a fingerprint to unlock, is wireless, and universal.

I want to live in the future. *quality

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Fingerprint tech has been so easily broken so many times now, even by the Mythbuster team. I would definitely not want anything to do with it, unless it has somehow gotten A LOT better.

This tech is a decent expansion of something that isn't too big a change from the current setup and is backward compatible, which is what makes it viable. I'm sure people have thought of many far safer methods but how are you going to get that out to the hundreds of millions of card readers in use today. Things need to happen gradually.

What would be useful is if you could actively disable/enable the cards number, so it is only usable exactly when you need to make a purchase and attempts at using it while it is disabled are rejected. It won't do much for physical theft but that would be great for online theft.

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Some decent ideas that work with the current systems. At some point, I'd prefer something about the size of a USB thumbdrive or keychain that uses a fingerprint to unlock, is wireless, and universal.

Thanks for the votes you guys are rad! I'd prefer an itouch this thin personally.

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It's a pretty cool anti-theft idea.

Great! Now I can´t just lose the card for one of my accounts, but all of them at once!

A friend of mine just got one of his accounts compromised. Someone tried to charge a few thousand on it in Australia. When he went to take care of it, the bank told him there were 3 credit card numbers associated with the account. He only had one card, and none of the numbers were old card numbers accidentally still active.

He asked them how there could possibly be more than one number if every time he got a new card to activate, the automated phone thing warned him that his old card would no longer work. They gave him one of those "we're going to take care of this for you, sir" answers.