martes, 8 de enero de 2013

Your card details “stolen out of thin air”


Question 1
a) TRUE “ by simply waving their card in front of a reader at the tills”
b) FALSE “...cardholders, most of whom are given a contactless card automatically when their old one expires”
c) FALSE “They then have enough information to rack up huge bills at any internet shopping site that does not demand the three-digit security code on the back of the card.”
d) TRUE “ Nobody really wants this technology”

Question 2
a) This new technology is a contactless one, which means that you just have to move your card in front of a special device which reads your details so that you can pay for things.
b) Customers can cover their cards with special wallets made of foil-lined or simply wrap them with foil. Moreover, they must call their banks as soon as they feel someone is using their cards dishonestly.

Question 3
a)       bring/brought in
b)       surrender
c)       do away

Question 4
a)       Bank details are transmitted by the technology in the card via its own radio signal.
b)       David Maxwell said that it had been a big problem in America for a while and was getting to be a big problem over there.
c)       If you wrap cards in tin foil, they will be protected from RFID skimmers. 

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