Best Buy closes its wireless registers

[sohcrates]

MSNBC Link

Apparently, "hackers" could sit in the parking lot and grab credit card numbers as they were transferred to a central computer.

All i can say is HA!

 

[Descartes]

Bump for a completely asinine idea employed by Best Buy.

 

[vi edit]

I think there was a thread yesterday discussing this very subject, and had places where you could go to complain about it.

Looks like BB listened.

 

[Mje]

Yeah, this is probably the dumbest thing I've seen a retail store do.

 

[GooberPHX420]

That is F-ing retarded. Anyone with any credit card fraud at all since BB has had these wireless registers could sue them. Who is to say their card number wasnt swiped?

 

[Adul]

haha morons.