{"id":8550,"date":"2013-12-10T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8550"},"modified":"2013-12-10T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:48:08","slug":"still-waiting-for-a-square-chip-and-pin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/still-waiting-for-a-square-chip-and-pin\/","title":{"rendered":"Still waiting for a Square chip and pin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley&#8217;s darling of the credit card payment industry, Square, has released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2013\/12\/the-new-square-reader-a-look-at-how-gadget-guts-are-designed\/\">another hardware iteration of their magstripe reader<\/a>. European watchers will note the system still doesn&#8217;t support &#8216;Chip and Pin&#8217;. While it&#8217;s not a deal-breaker for me, I continue to be amazed at the lack of security for the customer in the US credit card industry.<\/p>\n<p>At least in the UK retailers will check the signatures match &#8211; the majority of US transactions I&#8217;ve had swipe the card, hand it back, and then ask for a signature.<\/p>\n<p>I await Square&#8217;s launch in territories with stronger fraud protection systems with &#8216;keen interest&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley&#8217;s darling of the credit card payment industry, Square, has released another hardware iteration of their magstripe reader. European watchers will note the system still doesn&#8217;t support &#8216;Chip and Pin&#8217;. While it&#8217;s not a deal-breaker for me, I continue to be amazed at the lack of security for the customer in the US credit card industry. At least in the UK retailers will check the signatures match &#8211; the majority of US transactions I&#8217;ve had swipe the card, hand it back, and then ask for a signature. I await Square&#8217;s launch in territories with stronger fraud protection systems with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,52],"tags":[4918,4917,604,4919,1509],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-web-2point0","tag-chip-and-pin","tag-credit-card","tag-security","tag-signature-verification","tag-square","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2dU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}