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In my country, they recently found out that cards with wireless payment in them (pretty much standard here), are very easy to empty.

Here is the scenario, basically, you can pay every amount < 25€ without having to enter a pin code or do any verification. They did a test, where a person with a payment device would wrap it in a newspaper and bump against various strangers. Often if it was close enough to their pockets/purses they were able to receive the money directly on their bank without a problem.

Very clever. The main Issue Is, you need to Identify exactly which strangers do In fact hold wireless payment cards.

This just demonstrates that anything via wireless transmission, Is susceptible to attack and exploitation.

Security is getting harder and harder and I think the next move they'll need to make is create biometric login systems (yes, it already exists), but I mean making it in a standard instead of passwords.

Biometric authentication Is certainly a lot more secure, but not foolproof.

For Instance, take fingerprint authentication on a given device. Because fingerprint scanners are so small, they only take partial prints. As such, "full" human fingerprints are almost Impossible to match. So the device takes and stores so many "partial" prints- just to make It easier to find a match. Ultimately, a finger swipe only has to match ONE PARTIAL stored Image, hence a mismatch can happen with anyone's fingerprint.

An analogy Is If you store 10 passwords, and a hacker only has to match just the one with the list of passwords at his disposal.

When the police apprehend a criminal and take prints, you'll notice they "roll" the finger against the Ink- to make sure the ENTIRE finger Is printed. Fingerprint scanners (obviously) cannot do this, hence my above post.