Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
> My girlfriend bought a couple of rail tickets yesterday from one of
> the vending machines in Waverley Station, Edinburgh. An extremely
> simple procedure: select where you want to go, what sort of ticket
> you want, insert card, tickets dispensed.
>
> No you didn't miss a step. It *didn't* ask for a PIN.
>
> How the hell can that be legal?
>
> How the hell is it even *possible*?
>
> You could clean out somebody's account at the rate of a few hundred
> pounds a minute that way.
Same thing happens at the gas pump, here in the U.S.! It's
true some "pay at the pump" facilities DO ask for the
cardholder's zip code, but by no means all of them. (Even
with all the gas-guzzling SUV's here, it would take a lot of
tankfuls of gas to equal the cost of a few European railway
journeys, but the principle's the same.)
>
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