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    Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    You can withdraw up to £100 with just a tap of your debit card or NFC smartphone.
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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    Yeah, bypassing the slow card insert/read/eject mechanism will be handy. Also not losing your card in a dodgy machine. I bet 95%+ of withdrawals are under £100 too.

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    I still don't trust Contactless!!

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    I still don't trust Contactless!!
    I used to work in this industry testing this stuff, if you've got any questions on Contactless I can answer them for you and hopefully alleviate any concerns you might have

    The TL;DR is that contactless is very secure. No two contactless transactions are ever the same, it's incredibly fast but it uses fancy algorithms to ensure each transaction is unique, which means nobody can "skim" your card and go on a shopping spree.

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    Doesn't stop a quick thief nicking the money or bopping person over head and using card...
    Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 3dcandy View Post
    Doesn't stop a quick thief nicking the money or bopping person over head and using card...
    Neither of which are unique to contactless. So kind of a moot point surely? I mean, you still need the PIN. The only thing this helps with, is the speed of the transaction, as you dont have to wait for the insert/remove of the card.

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    My Santander branch has had these for a while (at least since early this year), but I've always inserted my card and am half way through putting in my PIN before I realise/remember.

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    Quote Originally Posted by Kushan View Post
    I used to work in this industry testing this stuff, if you've got any questions on Contactless I can answer them for you and hopefully alleviate any concerns you might have
    Sure thing...

    OK, if someone (somehow*) manages to pickpocket my wallet and make off with my card, it could be a few days before I next even go to use the card. Meanwhile, they're off Contactlessing my rather limited funds away. While I understand they'll not be able to use anything PIN-related, they can still shop at all the Contactless outlets... at least until my money runs out.

    How is that secure?



    *They'd need to access a zipped-up inner bike jacket pocket, take out the wallet which is chained to the pocket, unzip it and remove the card, before replacing the wallet, all without me noticing...

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    I don't like contactless either (won't even use it) so I was like seriously.... and the only way Barclays will give me a card without contactless feature is by having a credit card (really it should be the other way round due to cc protection etc)... which I don't want.

    Why don't I like contactless cards... out of curiosity I wanted to see if it could be easily read and you know what I could read stuff using a nexus 7 and an off the shelf nfc reader app so in theory all it takes is someone with a little knowledge on coding etc to get a working 'take payment app' that can skim stuff as you're walking round.

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    ......
    *They'd need to access a zipped-up inner bike jacket pocket, take out the wallet which is chained to the pocket, unzip it and remove the card, before replacing the wallet, all without me noticing...
    .... or just clone it contactlessly - no phyiscal thievery required.
    NFC disabled on my phone.
    NFC never will be an option on a bank/credit card for me.

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    You can get a wallet that can protect against cc skim
    Last edited by Neostar; 22-11-2016 at 05:28 PM.

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Kushan View Post
    I used to work in this industry testing this stuff, if you've got any questions on Contactless I can answer them for you and hopefully alleviate any concerns you might have
    Sure thing...

    OK, if someone (somehow*) manages to pickpocket my wallet and make off with my card, it could be a few days before I next even go to use the card. Meanwhile, they're off Contactlessing my rather limited funds away. While I understand they'll not be able to use anything PIN-related, they can still shop at all the Contactless outlets... at least until my money runs out.
    You can only use the card contactless-ly for a limited number of transactions before you get prompted for the PIN (in my experience).

    It is a cash replacement technology, and no less safe than losing cash in your wallet to the pickpocket.

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    Quote Originally Posted by Kushan View Post
    I used to work in this industry testing this stuff, if you've got any questions on Contactless I can answer them for you and hopefully alleviate any concerns you might have

    The TL;DR is that contactless is very secure. No two contactless transactions are ever the same, it's incredibly fast but it uses fancy algorithms to ensure each transaction is unique, which means nobody can "skim" your card and go on a shopping spree.
    So secure people are walking around with readers, taking money off of people cards and phones as they pass them in the street.....


    Whilst the maximum you can lose is restricted, calling them secure goes against my understanding of secure
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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    Quote Originally Posted by Ttaskmaster View Post
    Sure thing...

    OK, if someone (somehow*) manages to pickpocket my wallet and make off with my card, it could be a few days before I next even go to use the card. Meanwhile, they're off Contactlessing my rather limited funds away. While I understand they'll not be able to use anything PIN-related, they can still shop at all the Contactless outlets... at least until my money runs out.

    How is that secure?



    *They'd need to access a zipped-up inner bike jacket pocket, take out the wallet which is chained to the pocket, unzip it and remove the card, before replacing the wallet, all without me noticing...
    Someone's already mentioned this, but there's a limit to how many times a card can be used / spent on the card before it prompts for a PIN / Contact transaction.

    Quote Originally Posted by LSG501 View Post
    I don't like contactless either (won't even use it) so I was like seriously.... and the only way Barclays will give me a card without contactless feature is by having a credit card (really it should be the other way round due to cc protection etc)... which I don't want.

    Why don't I like contactless cards... out of curiosity I wanted to see if it could be easily read and you know what I could read stuff using a nexus 7 and an off the shelf nfc reader app so in theory all it takes is someone with a little knowledge on coding etc to get a working 'take payment app' that can skim stuff as you're walking round.
    Except it doesn't work like this at all. There's some confusion around this because the first "contactless" cards in the USA were just RFID tags embedded into a dumb plastic card (and yeah, those can be cloned very trivially). We use chip (US is currently migrating to chip) and have done for years, so our contactless is much more advanced. There's a special kind of handshake and cryptographic checks that are unique to every transaction, so you can't "clone" a card at all. The worst you can do is steal a single transaction, but there's a problem with that....which I'll lead onto here....

    Quote Originally Posted by snedger View Post
    .... or just clone it contactlessly - no phyiscal thievery required.
    NFC disabled on my phone.
    NFC never will be an option on a bank/credit card for me.
    You cannot "clone" a card. You cannot clone it without doing really crazy stuff like decapping the chip on the card itself, using some kind of electron microscope and pulling the private keys. Thousands of £££ worth of equipment and effort.

    Quote Originally Posted by shaithis View Post
    So secure people are walking around with readers, taking money off of people cards and phones as they pass them in the street.....


    Whilst the maximum you can lose is restricted, calling them secure goes against my understanding of secure

    Okay, so there's a problem with this. Say you're a theif and you've got a reader you've taken on the bus to just go around going "boop, boop boop" to anyone passing by, stealing £20 here, £30 there. Where does that money actually go?

    To your bank.

    Now imagine that those people suddenly all start complaining to their banks about fraud on their card. What's going to happen? It's all going to get traced back to the same terminal - yours. Which is linked to your bank account.

    You cannot just buy a terminal and go shopping, you have to get an agreement with a payment processor (i.e. a bank) and they will want proof of who you are. So yeah, you could steal some money but it'll get traced straight back to you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neostar View Post
    You can a wallet that can protect against cc skim
    Oh, great... so now everyone HAS to have RFID blocking crap in their wallets, manufacturers get to charge a premium for what we're forced to have, because banks won't issue non-contactless cards any more?
    Wooo, colour me happy......

    Quote Originally Posted by Kushan View Post
    Someone's already mentioned this, but there's a limit to how many times a card can be used / spent on the card before it prompts for a PIN / Contact transaction.
    Great. Wonderful.
    So they can empty my meagre account in one transaction, incur me overdraft charges and potentially leave me stranded 520 miles from home.... but they can only do it a few times before having to try and guess my PIN?
    Great.....

    You're not selling me on this so far!!

    Quote Originally Posted by Kushan View Post
    Say you're a theif and you've got a reader you've taken on the bus to just go around going "boop, boop boop" to anyone passing by
    How long before someone comes to lock you up in a padded cell?

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    Re: Barclays rolls out contactless cash machines

    Quote Originally Posted by Kushan View Post
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    As a long time lurker of Hexus comments sections I just wanted to say thank you to Kushan for injecting some knowledge and facts into what is very frequently unfounded ramblings based on poor knowledge of the subject at hand. (And I don't just mean this particular article/comments section!)

    I understand forums are here for people to express their opinions as well as facts but far too often it falls heavily onto (ignorant?) opinion and a pointless "points" scoring match.

    We're meant to be here discussing new, exciting news and advances in technology aren't we?
    What's with all the technophobia that we're so frequently subjected to in here!
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