Comments on: Wal-Mart’s Kiosk Trial Raises Serious PCI, Data Ownership Issues

By: Roger van Maris

Roger van Maris — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:30:36 +0000

Interesting article! Dealing with big box stores can be difficult especially in balancing the visual perception of who is delivering the service in store. Point taken that WM will be on the hook for whatever the kiosk does or does not do, in the eyes of the public. It is essential to mesh the policies of the the host retailer with the policies of the provider. Trust of our clients can not be betrayed at any point or our kiosk projects will definately fail.

By: Atilla Ovundur

Atilla Ovundur — Thu, 28 May 2009 11:03:02 +0000

In Turkey, credit payment systems are really hard to implement in selfservice kiosk systems. Almost every bank has its own loyalty program and customers are very addictible for them. And also PCI and EMV rules are quite strong in payment systems. So Security and privacy is not first issue but integrity is main problem so as to solve.

By: Craig Keefner

Craig Keefner — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:20:06 +0000

Thanks for exploring these issues. Nice article. My guess is the credit card readers are standard HID and possibly keyboard wedge (though we hate to think that). Something to be said for the new magteks which actually do do the encoding of data at the head and eliminate encoding by software (and uses magensa service to decode). Those options might be gaining momentum just in terms of plausible denial so to speak.