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ITmaze Nomads: PayPass - what's the problem?
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Thursday, 14 October 2010. PayPass - what's the problem? The system is encrypted, the bank says it cannot be hacked and my funds are protected against unauthorised use if I abide to their terms and conditions. So what's the big deal, why not chill out and deal with it - or even change banking institution? First of all, this idea is broken. It's broken on more levels than I can count. I've only been highlighting some of the issues. Here's some scenarios to consider:. The bank claims that cloning isn't pos...
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ITmaze Nomads: September 2010
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010. CBA PayPas - the second response. Dear Mr Benschop,. I have again referred this matter to our Credit Card Product Team, the response is as follows:. We do not recommend any attempt at manipulation of your card plastic. CBA Group Customer Relations. Group Sales and Service Support Team. Level 19, 150 George Street. P: 1800 805 605. F: 1800 028 542. Posted by Onno Benschop. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). CBA PayPas - the second response.
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ITmaze Nomads: CBA PayPas - my email to the bank
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Monday, 9 August 2010. CBA PayPas - my email to the bank. In response to your email, you are correct that I am not happy with the response provided as it did not in any way address any of the concerns I raised on the phone with you and your colleague. I'll state again, this time in writing, what the concerns are. The unlimited access to funds that the PayPass system represents provides ample incentive for the criminal element to become interested. I look forward to your response. Posted by Onno Benschop.
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ITmaze Nomads: July 2010
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Friday, 30 July 2010. Today I found out that the Commonwealth Bank has a new "feature" called PayPass or Tap 'n Go. I'd recently seen it advertised on TV and wondered what the implementation was like. I learnt the following:. The transaction limit is $100 per transaction. There is no limit to the number of transactions. You cannot set a limit. I asked to escalate the call and ended up speaking with a team leader in the Rapid Resolution Team who after some discussion began to understand my concerns and th...
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ITmaze Nomads: July 2009
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Thursday, 9 July 2009. VMware guest time sync under OSX. To sync time without needing VMware tools, you can run a cron job every minute that syncs with the OSX time daemon. Determine the IP address that OSX uses for the VMware network. Add a cron job in the guest that runs. Ntpdate -s {ip address}. I'm running this in Ubuntu 8.10 under OSX 10.5.7 VMware Fusion 2.0.5. Posted by Onno Benschop. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). VMware guest time sync under OSX.
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ITmaze Nomads: VM Workstation
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010. Having now used my virtual workstation for many months, I can provide a meaningful update about the whole thing. For those who want some background I wrote about what I'd like to achieve. A while back. I ended up running VMware Fusion on a 17" MacBook Pro. First of all, it works. I use my main virtual workstation all day every day. Deployment was as simple as creating a disk image of my ThinkPad, putting it on my MacBook drive and pointing VMware at it. I am running this with ...
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ITmaze Nomads: CISCO doesn't want any customers
http://blog.itmaze.com.au/2012/01/cisco-doesnt-want-any-customers.html
Wednesday, 4 January 2012. CISCO doesn't want any customers. Well, the joy of communicating with CISCO today has taught me that arguably the largest communications company really doesn't want any more customers. Their systems are clearly not up to the task and it takes a person who is intimately familiar with their product line-up to actually select a product. I thought I'd look at the CISCO online offering, perhaps they have something like a product selector. Sure, if you know intimately which parti...
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ITmaze Nomads: August 2010
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Monday, 9 August 2010. CBA PayPas - my email to the bank. In response to your email, you are correct that I am not happy with the response provided as it did not in any way address any of the concerns I raised on the phone with you and your colleague. I'll state again, this time in writing, what the concerns are. The unlimited access to funds that the PayPass system represents provides ample incentive for the criminal element to become interested. I look forward to your response. Posted by Onno Benschop.
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ITmaze Nomads: October 2010
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Thursday, 14 October 2010. PayPass - what's the problem? The system is encrypted, the bank says it cannot be hacked and my funds are protected against unauthorised use if I abide to their terms and conditions. So what's the big deal, why not chill out and deal with it - or even change banking institution? First of all, this idea is broken. It's broken on more levels than I can count. I've only been highlighting some of the issues. Here's some scenarios to consider:. The bank claims that cloning isn't pos...
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ITmaze Nomads: June 2009
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Friday, 26 June 2009. A letter to VMware. In case there is any interest in improving your client interaction, my customer interaction with your company today:. I was advised by an Apple technician to update my 6 day old copy of VMware Fusion 2.0.4 - I'd installed the shipped copy 2.0 an hour earlier - to 2.0.5 because it would fix the issue I was having. The electronic white pages do not show the 1800 number for telephone support. I tried to license my copy of VMware Fusion on the web - no success, not a...