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The iPhone as a Cash Register (businessweek.com)
1 point by petethomas on Feb 12, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I feel that the product is like a square plug in a round hole.

I would not trust some delivery guy who held up a cheap plastic thingy to swipe my card. Just looks like I am giving up my credit card info right in front of me to gangs in Belarus.

There is all this talk about people tampering with ATMs to get debit/credit card information. How hard would it be to hack their software?

Or may be you don't even need to do it. You just start making look-alikes that actually steal your credit card info.

Am I the only one worried?




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