Exactly my point. Wasn't Apple just in an iCloud hacking scandal?
Exactly my point. Wasn't Apple just in an iCloud hacking scandal?
Banks get hacked every single day, companies get hacked every single day, your government was hacked and had secrets spread all over the world.
As I understand it, there'll be nothing to 'hack'. Apple Pay doesn't store anything with Apple. There's a secure key held by your device (not by Apple), which is used to cryptographically generate one-time-only tokens for each purchase. It is this token which is sent to the NFC reader and to your bank.
So, for someone to clone your Apple Pay 'card', they would need to:
a) Hack your bank to obtain their half of your key. Bear in mind all storage on iPhones are encrypted by default.
b) Hack your device to obtain your half of the key
c) Know the algorithm used to generate tokens from your key
I don't understand your point of view at all. You say everybody gets hacked, but you also extol the security of a certain PCI product. Since everybody gets hacked, it's okay if CurrentC gets hacked as long as it's a front-end system?
Your point is ?? Owning a Mac means nothing all the biggest android bloggers use Mac's to make the YouTube videos. This is about payments not about Apple hardware.Your point?
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Exactly. I am an Apple enthusiast. Own nothing but Apple products and worked for the giant fruit company for 7 years.
That does not mean I have blind allegiance.
Read more posts. Don't just reply to what you read, check the context.
No. Some idiot celebrities used passwords like "password" and "123456" and low-tech "hackers" walked through the front door.
It's not a hack. It's idiots that don't have even slightly strong passwords.
I really do kinda feel sorry for the MCX consortium. They made a nice effort to come up with their own little system.
Exactly my point. Wasn't Apple just in an iCloud hacking scandal?
Please stop responding without reading context.
My point was people get hacked it has no bearings on their payment tech.
Please stop responding without reading context.
My point was people get hacked it has no bearings on their payment tech.
They don't have Chip and PIN yet in the US (They actually aren't going to have. They'll have chip and signature). They are the last country except Antartica who will be going to chipped cards.
Because what I am showing you is the folly in the ideology that a companies email is hacked therefore their processing system is faulty. When Apple gets hacked its the users bad passwords but with CurrentC its because they are stupid failures.
I have a extreme dislike toward entity that deliberately disrupt the use of technological innovation. So yes Im f'in pissed
The issue is that MCX has required merchants to use CurrentC exclusively. This means that there is no choice at those merchants. It's not just a matter of someone wanting to use CurrentC at Wal-mart and someone else wanting to use Apple Pay. There's no choice.
Obviously the technology is there at Rite-Aid and CVS to allow Apple Pay to "just work" without any effort on the part of the Rite-Aid or CVS.