At 01:28 PM 12/24/99 -0400, M Taylor wrote:
>> I personally would like a clearer explanation of just what happened, and
what
>> the "tamper-proof" devices were.
Anyone who uses 'tamper proof' is basically a novice.
Or a marketing droid. Tamper resistance increases the
cost of attack; tamper-evident packaging increases
the probability of detection.
In the rabbit-fox game, foxes never go extinct, and rabbits
are never safe.
>One of the largest security measures used seems to be that Interac (the
>debit network company, www.interac.org) tried to control access of
>Interact terminals to legimate companies.
Shades of DVD, GSM, ad nauseum.
