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If one of the smartest computer security guys was prepared to do all this work and throw lots of expensive experts (well grad students) at finding your bugs - would you:

1, Send developers to all their seminars to learn something

2, Buy them drinks

3, Sue them

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If anything, the banks promoting this technology should be sued for false advertising.

in many cases banks refused to reimburse cardholders who reported unauthorised card use, claiming that their systems could not fail

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN

2 decades earlier they prosecuted people who reported ATM losses for fraud - because ATMs were perfectly secure.

reference?

Numerous paper's on ross's page

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/wcf.html

They run windows95/2000 how can that ever be secure :)

p.s my reference is a blue screen of death on one :)

TRICK QUESTION.

1 and 2 are not mutually exclusive. Exactly why is the seminar not at the local pub?

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