Hmmm. More controversial than I thought. I have to admit that I’m not saying that ‘Chip and Pin is the best thing ever to happen and we should all be jolly grateful to those lovely banking chappies, Amen’. But I think it’s an improvement in most cases. After all the old cards didn’t have the chip which I (am led to) believe is more secure, and with the old cards if someone has your pin they can still take a lot of money. Part of it is about realising what debit cards actaully do. They are to (almost) all extents and purposes a big wad of cash that we carry round in our pockets.
One last thing is that someone on the BBC website did point out something rather cunning. Write a PIN on the back of all your cards. Just make sure it’s not the right one. Hopefully it’ll get rejected and swallowed by the cash machine when someone attempts to use it.
In other news (literally) it took me 15 minutes this morning to realise that it was Sian Williams presenting breakfast news and not Natasha Kaplinksy. Why do they have to put people that look that similar on at that time in the morning?
