From: "Geo" 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:42878ef3{at}w3.nls.net...

> It's about a number of different factors from knowing a pin rather than
> using a signature, to being able to turn off the card remotely so that
> even a disconeected reader would reject it, through to tracking the user
> where & whenever he/she uses it etc.

Seems to me they can do all that now with the card I have (it has a
magnetic strip on the back)

Geo.

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