[LINK] itNews advertises NFC payment schemes

[Roger Clarke]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Roger Clarke 
<<mailto:Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au> wrote:
>[People are concerned about the insecurity of unauthenticated
NFC-based payments, and the exposure of consumers to losses through
error and fraud.  People are returning cards, and destroying
chip-functionality, and bank-tellers are having to bear the brunt as
consumers complain;  but itNews merely reports on the onward march to
a glorious technological future.]

At 9:28 -0700 25/8/12, Scott Howard wrote:
>What percentage of people are "returning cards, and destroying 
>chip-functionality" ?  Do you have a source, or is this just 
>anecdotal information?

I have a couple of sources, but they're people who've made 
statements, not statistics.  It's not easy to get stats on matters 
like that, because it's against the interests of the only people who 
could compile them.


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