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Blighty-based infosec firm MWR InfoSecurity has created an automated fuzz tester to shore up vulnerabilities which may be affecting any device people are slotting their "Chip and Pin" cards into. Most infosec researchers who have dug into the terminal-smartcard authentication procedure have found that vulnerabilities are often …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Seriously....

    "Most infosec researchers who have dug into the the terminal-smartcard authentication procedure have found that vulnerabilities are often introduced during development. "

    Why did I just read this on The Register?

    When the hell else are vulnerabilities going to be introduced? During installation? During shipping? During QA?

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    1. Owain 1
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      Re: Seriously....

      During an 'interesting conversation' with GCHQ?

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  2. Andy The Hat Silver badge

    A Robot arm ...

    Surely mechanical insertion of a card is already done? Heck, they've have robotic rear ends to test car seat integrity for twenty years so surely a simple card inserter to rigorously test the card system should be in use already? By 'robot' I assume they mean a simple gear/slide mechanism to take the card & shove the card, take the card & shove the card ...

    The developers really don't do that by hand do they?

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