19 Jun
2008
19 Jun
'08
3:12 p.m.
On Thursday 19 Jun 2008 17:38, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:41 AM, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Old hat that comes to India when everbody gets tired of it. Old wine in new fancy bottle = cellphone as payment system. No need to buy any card. All the rage in Nokialand, where you can buy everything using a cellphone. If only they make that useless camera scan my finger and authenticate...
The problem is SMS messages can be easily spoofed. So cellphones as a means to do transactions is a bad idea.
does not use sms. Some other mechanism. Spoofing a simcard is not very easy (at least for now). And can be used countrywide for micro purchases,
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Rgds
JTD