[LINK] Cheap solution for security

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 08:40 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> How is this secure again?

He's made a specially shaped peephole; the peephole shape is unique to
each card. The bank (or whatever) displays a number to the cardholder in
a way that will only be legible if exactly the correct peephole shape is
used to view it - sort of a high-tech captcha.

It's probably harder to record and much hard to derive, so is better
than a CVV but not as good as something like SecureID.

Regards, K.

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