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Rob · 11-15-2005, 10:32 PM

Integrate a credit card reader into a keyboard just like they do at your local Habib store. If someone makes an internet purchase then they can just swipe their card rather than putting in all of their personal information and blah blah.

I don't see how this would be too difficult and would cut down internet fraud by MEELIONS of dollars a year.

Standard Keyboard = $20
Keyboard with integrated credit card reader = $40
Internet fraud reduced by millions = worthless to me but priceless to monopolizing credit card companies.

Just an idea, run with it if you want.

Doctor Dre · 11-15-2005, 10:33 PM

And add the fingerprint reader to that and you're getting a safe market ;)

Doctor Dre · 11-15-2005, 10:34 PM

It's not the first thread about it... I think m$ wants to integrate some with new gen computers.

3M TA3 · 11-15-2005, 10:35 PM

MCR keyboards are more expensive than that to have the security bundled in with it. Check out the Cherry Keyboards. Plus it's not hard to duplicate the mag stripe in a credit card. it's harder to get the CCV number off the back

i'll look for a link to the cherry keyboards

3M TA3 · 11-15-2005, 10:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doctor Dre

And add the fingerprint reader to that and you're getting a safe market ;)

inexpensive biometric devices are simply a CCD camera that takes a picture of your thumb/finger and compares it to a stored image. Having said that, if you make a photo copy of your thumb/finger print then reverse it and hold it up to the reader, it will take it.

3M TA3 · 11-15-2005, 10:40 PM

oops typo in first post... "MCR" = "MSR" for Mag Stripe Reader

Cherry Keyboard site. http://www.cherrycorp.com/

SmutGiant · 11-15-2005, 11:28 PM

I remember seeing a prototype of that in 1999. It's in the works somewhere

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Rob I'm a great bowler. Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Right Outside of Normal. Posts: 13,309	An Idea for you technical nerds out there. Integrate a credit card reader into a keyboard just like they do at your local Habib store. If someone makes an internet purchase then they can just swipe their card rather than putting in all of their personal information and blah blah. I don't see how this would be too difficult and would cut down internet fraud by MEELIONS of dollars a year. Standard Keyboard = $20 Keyboard with integrated credit card reader = $40 Internet fraud reduced by millions = worthless to me but priceless to monopolizing credit card companies. Just an idea, run with it if you want. __________________

11-15-2005, 10:35 PM	#4
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11-15-2005, 10:40 PM	#6
3M TA3 Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: So Cal Posts: 2,972	oops typo in first post... "MCR" = "MSR" for Mag Stripe Reader Cherry Keyboard site. http://www.cherrycorp.com/ __________________ Dedicated and colo hosting: ICQ 291313057 "A problem cannot be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew." - Albert Einstein

11-15-2005, 11:28 PM	#7
SmutGiant Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,895	I remember seeing a prototype of that in 1999. It's in the works somewhere