[Cryptography] cost-watch - the cost of the Target breach

[ianG]

On 6/12/2014 23:42 pm, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2014, at 2:29 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:

>> Ross points out (if I recall his comments correctly) that with chip&pin, the burden of proof moves away from the banks, which is why the banks are so hot for chip&pin.
> There's a difference between the British and US legal systems - and always has been.  For years, British banks were successfully able to push liability on to customers (they had their own customers prosecuted for fraud for claiming that withdrawals made using the bank's "completely secure" ATM cards weren't theirs) and merchants.

On that point of bad legal systems supporting the banks which dump 
liability, I've just been alerted to this new book from Stephen Mason 
who probably knows more about the legal side of this equation than anyone.



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Paal Øiestad’s credit card was stolen in 2008 in Rome, and over Nok 
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