The FBI Warns Retailers About Thieves Armed With Foil

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Post by agnuku » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 4:57 PM UTC

The FBI Warns Retailers About Thieves Armed With Foil
businessweek.com

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Post by amalag » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 4:59 PM UTC

I wonder who came up with this gem:

"Climb onto the roof and physically inspect satellite antennas before approving big-ticket sales."

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Post by superuser2 » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 8:37 PM UTC

Why not authorize transactions over redundant buried internet links? Why the need for specialized/proprietary satellite connections just do to credit cards?

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Post by eurleif » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 8:40 PM UTC

Do they even need to use stolen cards for this? Wouldn't cards with random (but valid) numbers work just as well?

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Post by abjorn » Thu, Jan 02, 2014, 10:40 PM UTC

I'm not sure what it is about this article or business week that attracts so many...interesting comment authors.

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Post by vampirechicken » Fri, Jan 03, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

So they make a tin foil hat for the satellite dish and it actually blocks the signals?

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Post by hamburglar » Sat, Jan 04, 2014, 12:23 AM UTC

Approving a large credit card transaction on faith seems like a pretty questionable move on the retailers' parts. Don't the CC companies have phone numbers they can use to manually approve transactions? Is it common for people to go into a gas station and buy a whole cartload of cigarettes? This seems like a crime that a little common sense would foil (get it? foil!).