old times, a lot of developer failure upon implement student card system which have e-wallet. Adoption cost to high. If you're company using bluetooth and can be use between android and ios. It will be so great.
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What do you mean? It’s no different with a plastic card, which user ID can be easily restricted from access at the source. Or a drivers license, or license plate which has been flagged in a computer system, or any other form of identification.
It’s laws that prevent that power from being abused. But in private settings like businesses and schools, there’s nothing to stop them. So I’m not sure what your point is here. This technology has been in use for decades, it’s just being moved to a more convenient and cost effective method. Nothing on the back end changes. If TPTB want to abuse their ability to grant access to individuals they could do that now.
Blackboard claims to equally supprt MiFare (likely MiFare Classic), DESFire, and FeliCa. Apple may be implementing something compatible with one of the former methods.
Very big in UK, so much so that we are losing cash machines at an unprecedented rate. For the first time ever card/mobile payments have surpassed the use of cash this year.
ROLL TIDE!!! (Auburn will always be a wannabe...The Mets to our Yankees...OK, so I am a professor at BAMA and biased).
The difference is that it’s one device that controls everything. One MDM switch flipped remotely and you can lose access to everything.
I’m in the US, I never carried cash for ten years. Most people I know don’t either. I use Apple Pay and my Chip & PIN debit card daily.
Yeah, as a freshman I am REQUIRED to get a meal plan, the lowest option has $725 dining dollars for the semester, and 10 meal exchanges per week, each exchange being worth $8.50.
Probably in London. Also, probably in New York and Tokyo. Bet it started to happen first in Asia. Don't think It only is happening in UK and not in other countries. How money is spent is very cultural.
Uh not in the United States... $7.50 per meal * 3 meals per day * 7 days per week * 15 weeks (1 semester) = $2362. And that won't buy you any restaurant more than fast food.
I want my Apple watch to do everything from opening cars to gaining entry at movie theaters and workplaces, but without having to swipe through cards.
Just press button and tag. Should not be a requirement to swipe to the right card.
Just press button and tag. Should not be a requirement to swipe to the right card.
You're in the US and use chip &pin? where? I've never been asked for my pin in the US.
I actually have a credit card (issued by a US bank, even) that requires PIN at most places. It's definitely not common, though, so I've had issues at some places.
That depends...
-If it is a business credit card, often times a pin is required and can’t be ‘cancelled’ on the pin pad to run as credit.
-If it is a credit card like a ‘World Card’ where it is expected to be used while traveling, a pin for chip and pin is setup, though most places don’t require it in the US. I don’t know if they disable that until you travel, or if they just deactivated it, as I have a card that required me to setup a pin for chip and pin, but it has NEVER asked for pin in the US, and I’ve not travelled internationally since I got the card years ago. It got me excited that we would be switching to chip and pin instead of a signature nobody checked, but instead, places like Walmart and Best Buy just don’t do signatures anymore per the newest Visa/MC/Amex processing rules
-OR- if it is a debit card.
You using HID for that? As it happens I'm in town this week and would like to see that in action. Should I swing by and say hi to you and MS?
Only with debit cards are chip and PIN, credit cards are currently no joke chip and nothing. Insert, it beeps at you, remove the card. Spend over $50 you May get asked for PIN.
ps, we finally got chip cards in 2015
I've got a Wiegand door lock already that I'm waiting to be able to figure out how to unlock with my phone so same!
There is literally no difference between using cards or phones.
The verification happens on the infrastructure side, so you can easily revoke it either way.