I dread to think of the queues that this is going to cause if high-street stores bring this in but if it actually makes my transactions more secure and the threat of fraud lower then chalk me down for one.
This new card from MBNA has a built-in numeric keypad, and when you put in your PIN, it’ll display a security code like the one sites always ask you for now – perhaps you already have one of those small calculator code jobbies for online banking as well?
Hopefully this extra stage will make spending a lot of money with a stolen card significantly harder if not impossible online.
Now, if my next laptop comes with a biometrically secured keypad to go along with my keypad locked hard-drive………………..
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