-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-03-26 at 18:25 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
Lifting a print and then embedding that print into a putty mold takes significantly more skill and training than the average snatch/grab artist is likely to muster.
I think the method involved using the latent print to etch a PC board, then taking the mold off that. This is sophisticated, true, but it doesn't involve any materials that an average person can't get their hands on or any skills an average person can't master.
About a month or so ago the police arrested a gang that made a sophisticated device to put on top of bank on the wall holes or however you call them. You know, you push your car into a slot, you type your pin, and you get your money. Well, the trick is to put a fake reader on top of the legitimate reader so well designed that you don't notice. Plus, they place a miniature web camera pointing at the keyboard to read your pin. Later, they remove both and retrieve the data, or they already got the data through a radio link. Later, they use the data to duplicate the credit cards, and finally, they separate you from your money. Well, this gang manufactured so good devices that they did an extra business out of selling the devices... This is not SciFi, it is happening. My father was stolen 1200 eur this way. And it is a sophisticated method. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGCHjLtTMYHG2NR9URAk4bAJ4jbUE8dTGFGPWCyy6hUfdYwxGKdwCffe89 Gd1NKaBOYUBgY6SLvKlwrMk= =LKV5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org