Kelley Langford, vice president of sales and marketing at System Innovators, says the process takes about 90 seconds. One might argue the chances of such theft occurring are rather remote, and almost non-existent if a user keeps their iPhone in sight, in a pocket or a purse.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Starbucks Mobile Payment System: One Unfortunate Security Issue
The Starbucks mobile payment application has a security issue that could allow another person to "steal" the stored value on the linked Starbucks card.
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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