On 8/12/2014 10:14 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 08/12/2014 12:45 PM, John Andersen wrote:
Browser plugins? OS based password vaults.?
Are ye daft man?
No, John, I'm trying to lead ellanios along gently. I'm trying to to respect that *she* does work at her desktop and that those DM or Browser integrated tools are he next step.
Then I'd point out to her that there are browser integrated tools that 'sync' so that she can access them from Windows and other machines...
And when she's comfortable with that I'll talk to her about what you propose.
And maybe later on, when you USA-ans have finally universally adopted chip-and-pin at your store checkouts, I'll discuss using NFC for authentication and authorization.
Heck, I'm not some geeky futurist. I'm not trying to induce systemic shock. I've had enough problems recently trying to drag a couple of government project managers out of the 1960s...
Well I must admire your mentoring spirit. It never occurred to me to assume I was dealing with a specific gender, email-addresses being unreliable indicators in the modern era, nor did I assume there was any reason to "lead her/him along gently". After all, figuring out kgpg and tool use suggested more than a novice was at work here. OT: As for Chip and Pin, rushing to that obsolete standard isn't a wise idea. You have to understand that the reason it was adopted in europe was because at the time their telecom networks at the time (early 2000s) were so inadequate that just getting through on a dialup verification station could take half an hour. Further, chip and pin has not been a panacea to knock down credit card fraud in the countries that have adopted it. EU fraud rate always was about .14% of transactions vs US fraud rate of .05%. 20 years of chip and pin and large parts of the EU still have not done better than the then, and current, US credit card fraud rate of around .052%. See
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/aug/06/european-card-reached-n... http://www.cardhub.com/edu/credit-debit-card-fraud-statistics/
Ars had an article about this:
http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/chip-based-credit-cards-are-a-decade...
The US will probably adopt chip and pin, not because it is a good idea, simply because it is being pushed by the EU, and we are taught to believe everything from the EU is superior and more advanced these days. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org