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Bricks and Wedges

December 17, 2008 Phil Wherry Leave a comment

It’s possible to construct a wheel out of bricks by using little wooden wedges in between the bricks to make the whole production sort of vaguely round. But no sane engineer would be proud to have designed such a thing.

That’s what I think of every time when I look at the landscape of security “solutions” for credit card payments.

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