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After 5th transaction in a day or exceeding day limit you have to authorize by PIN (the same which is used in ATM, so pretty much constant - and easy to intercept by camera). But it generally depends on the bank you use. Different banks have different default settings. The customer can adjust these settings or turn them off. People here commonly use a one-time-generated number in a specialized application to confirm transactions. It is non refundable. If you entered a PIN, it is final, you cannot get a refund. Thieves have learned how to trick people into giving them this one-time-generated number by pretending to be friends - basically, they steal someone's Facebook account and write to their friends asking for a small loan, the unsuspecting people give them the code and the money disappears. If someone cares about security, they should use: 1) virtual cards with one-time generated data.. 2) Have two accounts with independent cards. When he/she needs to pay for something, he/she transfers money from his/her main account to the other and pays for the item immediately (online or in a regular store). Then the account remains empty until the next transaction. Even if the data is lost, in any way, online or offline, by a camera or a rogue merchant, it doesn't matter. They can't take money from the empty account.

Losing money from a credit/debit card that has a magnetic stripe (which one doesn't?) is as easy as this guy shows: You still have CC/debit card at hand, but somebody else has unlimited number of copies, so you have no idea how this all happened, if they will use it after months.. People frequently give their credit/debit cards to bartenders, salesmans, waiters, receptionists etc. etc. They can duplicate your CC and/or make photos and then use anywhere else, Internet or regular shop. CCTV installed in the shop with 4k/8k may be enough to record all CC details when person do contactless operation.. If they are not greedy, you won't notice for days or months, or never. A 70-plus-year-old woman found another woman's debit card here. She started using it for her daily grocery shopping contactless. The limit at the time was set at $12.5 per day, now it has been extended to $25 per day. Grandma used the card for several months. She was not greedy - used just $5 per day or so. The card's owner discovered the operations on the card by accident after several months and contacted the police. Those waited for the thief in the store, as she daily appeared in the same place, and caught her. A greedy thief will be detected immediately, while a non-greedy thief will remain undetected because his/her operations mix with all the other operations that people perform on a daily basis. Going back to the RFID/NFC topic: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hacking+contactless+cards The first video I have here for this query string shows how such "action" in the shop will look like from thief POV. It happens so fast that you don't even know what happened. I don't want to advertise the device name, but it is just $330 at Amazon. Once you have the device name see Linus Tech Tips about the device (more technical and more professional discussion).

Your response is too ambiguous. What are your objections at all? According to my country statistics (national bank data and police data from Google), there were 1:190 chance (0.5%) of losing money from stolen debit/credit card data ("unauthorized usage of credit/debit card data") in my country in 2021..

..The same could be said of the IT antivirus industry.. or the condom producers industry.. insurance industry (even more!).. Hackers are installing card readers on ATMs around the world, and local newspapers frequently warn about it. Such things are detected only if they immediately start taking money from stolen cards. If they did it six months later or later, no one would know how they got the data. How can a hacker install a card reader/camera recorder on devices? Simply by being employed in a store, restaurant or hotel.. How did you get infected with HIV? Who have you had sex with in the last few years? If someone has sex every day, the answer is almost impossible.. The same goes for cards. You insert them into unknown devices several times a day.. Have you checked where your, family members, and friends data get leaked in hacker attack by now? https://haveibeenpwned.com/

If someone was seriously interested in this, they would simply buy an RFID receiver and transmitter, and do a series of experiments... One thing might be fake and other not, you have no idea with what you are dealing with, until you will check it.. apparently not so obvious to some... I would don't trust even brand name stuff (just today I found it does not want to work with Bluetooth speakers...)

...you don't use it often in your answers..

Lucky you. A good wife is worth a billion dollars in gold.

How can you prove that this is not what they are looking for? Brain in a vat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_in_a_vat

..your self-confidence about your abilities is overestimated.. you cannot even detect the things the application does on the computer or smartphone which you hold in your hand..

..no "X Files" anymore.. ? 😮

They would have to have sonar on the mother ship. But I like your idea. It could/should be checked by the Pentagon or other agencies using their own data from sonars..

A properly designed submarine has a sound transmitter that is activated automatically or manually in an emergency situation.. e.g., the flight recorder of an airplane submerged in water has a sound emitter activated when the plane sank (how many times was it used? how often does the plane land in the ocean??)..

Since "Bigfoot" is a mammal and not a single microorganism, it requires a sufficient population to keep it genetically healthy and diverse. It would have to number in the hundreds to thousands. Otherwise, they would have to mate with their relatives, which would end in DNA degeneration. Incest and inbreeding are unhealthy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbreeding_depression

..I'm in hell when I read yet another of your posts about UFOs and nothing else.. Your entire existence is spinning around this..

C:\Users\Sensei>nslookup scienceforums.net Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.43.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: scienceforums.net Addresses: 2a01:a500:512:1:5c1:d0e5:17:be57 94.229.79.58 https://ipinfo.io/94.229.79.58 Summary ASN AS42831 - UK Dedicated Servers Limited Hostname xyloid.org Range 94.229.64.0/20 Company UK Dedicated Servers Limited Hosted domains 10 Privacy True Anycast False ASN type Hosting Abuse contact abuse@ukservers.com Hosted Domains API scienceforums.net moxey.uk refsmmat.com nekmesh.info davidmoxey.uk xyloid.org holyspiritsouthway.org.uk statisticsd https://www.google.com/search?q=UK+Dedicated+Servers+Limited https://www.ukservers.com/ They want 49 UKP/month = ~ 63 USD for dedicated Linux servers. 63 USD/m * 12 y/m = 756 USD/y + (domain) ~ 20-40 USD/y = ~ 800 USD/y So, from the ads published on scienceforums.net, it seems that they need to get at least ~ 2000 USD/year or so, to come out at zero.. (Google costs+VAT) If you ask me, $50 a year is needed, not $800 a year, but Dave has more stuff on that dedicated server, which makes him more reluctant to give it up (especially when IT guys earn 5-10x more than a regular people).. https://www.informer.ws/whois/scienceforums.net ps. In September you need to remember about the domain. October is the expiration date.. It is ALWAYS forgotten.. Make alarm in smartphone.. It is 20-50 USD or so saved year by year..

@TheVat Depends on bandwidth required, and space required. If you ask me, I would say, 12 USD per year is needed for the cheapest VPS with 20 GB space, and 21 USD for .net domain.. ..but people (i.e. admins/owners/programmers) are getting used to it.. and don't want to switch from an inferior option to a better one because it costs them "work" (moving data from X to Y server)..

Doomsday delayed then.. crap.. *sigh*.. Kickstarter, or so, fundraising to ensure they have enough money to maintain their servers.. ?

Not really. Source codes for web browser extensions are publicly available. Write your own within 5 minutes (just copy'n'paste for a start): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Your_first_WebExtension This is working example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Your_second_WebExtension ...not in the video tag displayed on every web page...? ps. Paid Internet ads are for people who do not have a database of "all" the inhabitants of this planet who have Internet access.. Once you have the first sample extension on disk, to remove the video (or any other) tags, simply use the: var elements = document.getElementsByTagName( 'video' ); https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/getElementsByTagName Then iterate through the all elements and disable, replace them, or alter them.. So the video tag no longer works... This way you don't waste the measured broadband connection..

Lie! The aliens are not so stupid to use the imperial unit system..

It's very simple - eliminate all humans from this planet.. I can do it today if you pray enough.. They have no idea about how their ads will appear.. The most annoying ads are "video ads".. when you have LTE or older, metered connection.. In the case of unmetered fiber-optic Internet connection, it is simply annoying (due to the sound appearing out of nowhere).. in the case of metered mobile connection, money is lost every time an advertisement is displayed.. I've started writing a Firefox/Chrome plug-in that will find and remove "video" tags from websites I view..

...it all depends on how the wires are touched, dry or wet, etc. if it is the left hand one wire and the right hand, the other wire, all the current, whether it is AC or DC, flows through the heart area, which can affect the functionality of the organ passing through.. @TheVat @exchemist One hand on the pantograph plus rubber boots do not make/close the circuit.. (as long as the clothes are dry ) ps. Don't try at home John..

Chatbot was used to replace journalists.... ? There is more of this kind of "madness" recently e.g. https://variety.com/2023/film/news/james-bond-novels-edited-racism-1235536164/ "James Bond Novels Edited to Remove Racist Content" Will Robinson Crusoe also be rewritten too?

Artificial intelligence has "states" and "weights" ("probabilities of true/false") of these states. These affect other states in a complex hierarchy tree. "States" are updated, "weights" are updated when you and other people talk to a human (updated in the brain) or to an artificial intelligence. "learning by repetition" ("repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth") (see Russia these days) increases "weights" of some "state" ("information"). https://www.google.com/search?q=state+weights+artificial+intelligence A normal computer only has bits with 0 or 1, there is no other alternative. ps. Other alternative chatbots have ended their lives as racists, misogynists, nationalists, simply because the people talking to them provided such and not other content and anybody could influence them (just like evil dictators/political leaders do to people).. https://www.google.com/search?q=chatbot+racist+answers e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)

Does it matter? Why does it matter? Why does such a trivial thing bother you?

(Some/most) people are prostitutes. Will do everything for money.. Some wear nice suits to steal your money (e.g. how much money do they need to get elected as POTUS?), others wear the weirdest costumes to get your money.. If you put something controversial, or say something controversial on your channel, you'll get free ads from people like @StringJunky all over the world.. for free.. The entire social media will be flooded with this.. https://www.google.com/search?q=Roger+Waters+russian That guy has something with head and/or is supporter of V.P. .. Anonymous etc. should be on his PC, laptop and smartphone to investigate what is the case..