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MasterCard, Syniverse to Use Geolocation for Cards

posted by LaminatorX on Saturday March 01 2014, @03:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the two-factor-indebted-nation dept.

AnonTechie writes:

"MasterCard is partnering with mobile technology company Syniverse. The two will deliver a service to fight credit-card fraud by linking the user's card with the user's mobile phone. This will be an opt-in service and it is still in pilot-phase. Geolocation data will be key in making this work; the person will need to have both the phone and card. In order to complete any card transaction the user will need to have that mobile device switched on to a specific geolocation while abroad. A credit card user's point-of-sale details will be correlated with the geolocation of the mobile device. The true location will be identified, reducing the likelihood that criminals are able to buy goods with stolen cards."

 
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  • (Score: 1) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:05PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) on Saturday March 01 2014, @05:05PM (#9228) Homepage

    I should not drink and post.

    He offers a choice of 127.0.0.1 and 0.0.0.0 blackholes.

    I use the zeroes because I run a localhost Apache for use in designing my website [warplife.com] without having to be online. It's better than local file:/// URLs because I can use server-side includes, as well as to use Validator S.A.C. for OS X to validate my markup, with the includes being included.

    Were I to use the 127.0.0.1 hosts file, I'd have vast quantities of error log reports every time I blackholed my hosted-pixel colleagues.

    However 0.0.0.0 does not work on some platforms, so try it out for yourself. If it does not work then use the 127.0.0.1 file.

    Extra Credit: install the hosts file for your friends and family.

    Please don't advise nontechnical folk to monkey with their hosts files. Just explain why they need to let you do it for them.

    --
    I have a major product announcement [warplife.com] coming 5:01 PM 2014-03-21 EST.