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How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider

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Re: How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider

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Post by shakna »

ngonch wrote: post #5

Australia and New Zealand are insanely careless with personal data. I was shocked when I was asked to write my credit card details, including cvv, on a piece of paper in a beachside surfboard rental shop

Yeah, no. That's someone who is lazy and not following our rather comprehensive credit card regulations [0]. PCI DSS is required by both VISA and MasterCard, who are the only one's approved by said regulations. CVV storage is not permitted.

If you reported them, chances are, the business would be shut down.

[0] https://www.rba.gov.au/payments-and-infrastructure/payments-...

Re: How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider

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Post by bell-cot »

apimade wrote: post #7
ngonch wrote: post #5

Australia and New Zealand are insanely careless with personal data. I was shocked when I was asked to write my credit card details, including cvv, on a piece of paper in a beachside surfboard rental shop

That is neither standard nor normal.

Perhaps. From a distance (physical, social, or both) local norms of behavior are often non-standard and abnormal.

Re: How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider

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Post by ngonch »

apimade wrote: post #7
ngonch wrote: post #5

Australia and New Zealand are insanely careless with personal data. I was shocked when I was asked to write my credit card details, including cvv, on a piece of paper in a beachside surfboard rental shop

That is neither standard nor normal.

Hotels always ask to physically take my credit card, random maintenance guys ask to access my apartment without a heads-up from the landlord. It's seen as normal, but in my book it's a bit careless.

Re: How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider

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Post by mvdtnz »

ngonch wrote: post #5

Australia and New Zealand are insanely careless with personal data. I was shocked when I was asked to write my credit card details, including cvv, on a piece of paper in a beachside surfboard rental shop

A beachside surfboard rental shop is not "New Zealand". Stop being so ignorant.

Re: How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider

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Post by mvdtnz »

ngonch wrote: post #13
apimade wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is neither standard nor normal.

Hotels always ask to physically take my credit card, random maintenance guys ask to access my apartment without a heads-up from the landlord. It's seen as normal, but in my book it's a bit careless.

Of course hotels take your CC, how else are they supposed to charge it? And maintenance men accessing your home without a heads-up is very much illegal and not commonplace.

Re: How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider

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Post by mvdtnz »

bell-cot wrote: post #12
apimade wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is neither standard nor normal.

Perhaps. From a distance (physical, social, or both) local norms of behavior are often non-standard and abnormal.

What this person is describing are not norms here.

Re: How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider

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Post by technion »

ngonch wrote: post #13
apimade wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is neither standard nor normal.

Hotels always ask to physically take my credit card, random maintenance guys ask to access my apartment without a heads-up from the landlord. It's seen as normal, but in my book it's a bit careless.

I agree that Australia could improve a lot but hotels will take a credit card scan at every country I've been to. In many other countries they also take your passport away and you wait a while to get it back.

Re: How I pwned a major New Zealand service provider

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Post by loktarogar »

bell-cot wrote: post #12
apimade wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is neither standard nor normal.

Perhaps. From a distance (physical, social, or both) local norms of behavior are often non-standard and abnormal.

This isn't normal in Australia or New Zealand, at a national or a local scale. But you can't draw conclusions at a national scale from a local interaction, either way.
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