Posted on 02/08/2014 3:14:06 AM PST by kingattax
They used those on the plane going over to Europe...
How hard to remember "1234"???
Yep, I’ve seen them on planes too. It’s ubiquitous tech over here. From Stockholm to Istanbul. Heck, I’ve even seem them in Uganda; a friend of mine, her bank card is the chip-type, and the major stores in Kampala all have those readers, and also the more upscale restaurants and bars.
I didn’t have problems in Belgium or Germany, however Netherlands was another matter entirely.
And we’ve been brainwashed into believing that the U.S. is the leader in such technological advances. What putzes we are!
Oh you mean what the Bible describes as the Mark of the Beast.
In 2015? We’ll see. Its going to be a lot easier to get new cards to people than it will be getting millions of new point if sale devices in place.
> Maybe in future, it will simply be pheromones or DNA. Maybe we all unknowingly give off a distinct EMF.
Sometimes you hear a high frequency pitch in your head that just won’t go away. Maybe its the EMF that’s around us. I’ve heard other conspiracy theories about it but won’t entertain some of the crazy notions they have though there may be a ring of truth somewhere in it. After all we have had more than our fair share of shooters saying they’ve been hearing voices in their head before going off the deep end and shooting the place up.
> I go through Europe (Paris, Amsterdam, or London) every month. I’ve never had any problems with cards. I’ve also never witnessed this pin thing. Maybe the author of the article needs to go through Europe before writing about it.
Maybe the author is promiting it for the NWO.../s
> I go through Europe (Paris, Amsterdam, or London) every month. I’ve never had any problems with cards. I’ve also never witnessed this pin thing. Maybe the author of the article needs to go through Europe before writing about it.
Maybe the author is promoting it for the NWO.../s
Just write it on the back of the card. ;-)
I just got back from Europe in the fall on a two week trip to Spain, France, Germany, and Switzerland. My cards worked fine except at a self-service gas station in France. All three cards that I used in Europe (which I never use anywhere else) were hacked within two months of my return. Watch that Hertz counter in Barcelona! Just sayin.
Europe had ATM’s years before they were installed in the US.
AFAIK, the sustained tones we hear are the sound of hair cells dying. Each cell is a specific pitch/tone and once they die, we no longer hear that sound again.
I was thinking more in terms of the *visible aura* people say they see or photograph when referring to EMF.
While I also have reservations concerning the “Voices put in my head by the CIA via my amalgam fillings” claims, it is interesting to think about. So many formerly paranoid-seeming claims, such as NSA is listening to phone calls, et al, don’t seem so paranoid any longer, do they? I have read some of the MKULTRA material and it seems totally off the wall until I look at what has taken place these past 6 years and then I think that it just might be possible, if improbable.
“And we’ve been brainwashed into believing that the U.S. is the leader in such technological advances. What putzes we are!”
AMEX Blue used these almost 15 years ago, but US retailers saw no need to convert their card readers. AMEX even provided me with a card reader for my home computer to ensure safe web purchases, but again, no retailers got with the program.
Never heard of hear high pitched tones thing from hair dying. Been hearing that high pitched sound in my head since I was a kid so I doubt it has anything to do eith the government not that some of them aren’t. I ave noticed the intensity is stronger than it used to be do there might be something to “dying hair” theory (but I certainly hope not...: ( )
> All three cards that I used in Europe (which I never use anywhere else) were hacked within two months of my return. Watch that Hertz counter in Barcelona! Just sayin.
Hey those guys at the rental counters aren’t wearing Rolexes for nothin’...lol
When I went to my local AAA to buy my Disney trip, the agent took my credit card, placed it in a black plastic tray, covered it with a 3” x 7” multi layered paper/carbon paper thingy, and slid a bar back and forth to indent my card number on the carbon paper. I haven’t seen that since I was a kid. I was surprised my card could still do that.
The credit card companies have vigorously opposed any update to their cutting edge 1960s technology for 40 years now.
With this, they are updating their security to about 1990s levels.
In future, credit cards almost *have* to be biometric, with a picture of the user on front, a fingerprint, and an encrypted data matrix bar code pattern on the back, which can be read and translated by most cell phone cameras, and has its own error correction for some degree of damage.
I am a merchant and a consumer. As both, I welcome more secure transactions. However, as I perused my Costco magazine just this week I saw something troubling in one of the articles: “Beginning October 1, 2015, there will be a liability shift from the card issuers to merchants of any size, excluding automated fuel dispensers (”pay at the pump”). Merchants not using compliant EMV point-of-sale solutions will be liable for domestic and cross-border counterfeit credit card fraud committed at the point of sale”
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