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The Diebold ActiveEdge card reader: A turn for the better?
Simply by rotating card orientation 90 degrees, Diebold aims to turn the ATM skimming underworld on its head.
July 31, 2014
Diebold Inc. EVP and Chief Innovation Officer Frank Natoli will tell you, "The good guys build a 10-foot wall and the bad guys build an 11-foot ladder." But Diebold believes that its new card reader technology will shorten the ladder by several rungs. The company has introduced ActiveEdge, a card reader that is unskimmable by any currently known mechanism.
ActivEdge approaches skimming from a different angle, literally, by requiring users to insert cards into the reader via the long edge, instead of the traditional short edge. By shifting a card's angle 90 degrees, ActivEdge prevents all modern skimming devices from reading the card's full magnetic stripe, eliminating the devices' ability to steal card data.
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