USB Credit Card? Are they serious?

[SUBMAN1]

I'm still baffled at the credit card companies of late. When are they going to get it through their thick skulls that a thin plastic credit card is the 'PERFECT' device for credit transactions? Who the hell wants a damn USB stick stuck in their pocket vs a nice peice of plastic stuck in their wallet????

Here is your neat new credit car.... Um, I mean USB stick for the future:

http://img.etnews.co.kr/english/art_img/071228015424_285059136_2.jpg

Can someone answer that question above? I can't! Why would someone want this thing over a tiny card that slips into ones wallet????

And what is up with this flash pay system where you swipe your card in front of a scanner instead of simply swiping it down a scanner??? By physically swiping it, this is a secure form of payment. By flashing it so that it can be scanned at range, I can build a scanner and swipe credit cards by simply walking down the street!

Everyone should buy themselves a shileding wallet for the future. I guess I'm getting off topic for this thread - its on USB sticks. Oops!

-S

PS. Here is the link to the article:

http://english.etnews.co.kr/news/detail.html?id=200712280013

[Tchocky]

Hmm, incorporating fingerprint readers (like on some USB sticks) would help credit security. Otherwise, I can't see much usefulness in these yet.

[SUBMAN1]

Hmm, incorporating fingerprint readers (like on some USB sticks) would help credit security. Otherwise, I can't see much usefulness in these yet.I'm sorry. I'm not giving my fingerprint to any bank for security.

-S

[Tchocky]

Hmm, incorporating fingerprint readers (like on some USB sticks) would help credit security. Otherwise, I can't see much usefulness in these yet.I'm sorry. I'm not giving my fingerprint to any bank for security.

-S
I was thinking more along the lines of an access key. once you get your USB stick, you can't use it until you supply a fingerprint. The print details stay with you.

[SUBMAN1]

...The print details stay with you.:D :rotfl: :p

Thats a good one! Tell that to the bank that just transmitted it to themselves off your key when you made that last transaction.

If you read the article, you have no control over that USB key - they locked you out so you can't use it as a storage device.

I don't trust DRM, nor the people that make it. If everything is OK, you wouldn't need DRM.

-S

[Skybird]

Hmm, incorporating fingerprint readers (like on some USB sticks) would help credit security. Otherwise, I can't see much usefulness in these yet.I'm sorry. I'm not giving my fingerprint to any bank for security.

-SIf you were topurist to your country, you would. Else holiday is over before it began. ;)

fingerprints have been demonstrated to be very unsafe in german test supermarkets were they had automatted cash desks. the machines were fooled by prints being taken off the sensor field with Scotch Tape, copied, grey-toned, scaled and printed on overhead/transparency film, and glueing them to the tester's fingertip.

After all, fingerprints are just a 2-dimensional picture.

And having fingerprint scanner all aropund, maybe in the future you will not only be robbed of your credit card, but will have your fingers being chopped of as well. Somewhere in Asia a car manufacturer has stopped to equip his cars with fingerprint detectors linked to the ignition: the number of cars being stolen while wiaitng in traffic on crossroads and drivers being chopped of their hands or finger, drastically increased. That was news I read maybe three years ago.