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Bankers rebuffed by university over request to censor scholarly paper
• RawstoryChip and PIN is a smartcard payment system in the United Kingdom that requires customers to enter a personal identification number (PIN) when making a transaction. Secure as the industry would like this system to seem, it isn't, as a lone student proved earlier this year with the construction of an inexpensive device that eliminates the PIN requirement.
A thesis describing how the device works and how it was created was published on the Cambridge website in June.