Security Researcher's Hotel Key Breach
This is a US news story, published by BBC UK, that relates primarily to Mastercard news.
US news
For more US news, you can click here:
more US newsemerging technologies news
For more emerging technologies news, you can click here:
more emerging technologies newsBBC UK news
For more news from BBC UK, you can click here:
more news from BBC UKAbout the Otherweb
Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best tech news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like emerging technologies news, you might also like this article about
magstripe card. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest key cards news, magnetic tape news, emerging technologies news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!
key cardBBC UK
•Is this the end for the magnetic stripe?
76% Informative
Magstripe hotel key cards are rare these days , increasingly superseded by contactless cards.
From this year onwards Mastercard will not require banks to put a magnetic stripe on debit and credit cards.
For ticketing, new technologies including printable barcodes are more environmentally friendly and potentially more convenient.
Magstripe technology is extremely well established, but it is inevitable it will gradually disappear.
US banks are finally switching to chip and PIN cards, the market for magstripe is dwindling.
Newer technologies may also be more complex - and therefore exploitable by criminals using novel methods.
VR Score
75
Informative language
72
Neutral language
62
Article tone
informal
Language
English
Language complexity
49
Offensive language
not offensive
Hate speech
not hateful
Attention-grabbing headline
not detected
Known propaganda techniques
not detected
Time-value
medium-lived
External references
1
Source diversity
1
Affiliate links
no affiliate links