{"id":430462,"date":"2019-04-18T08:48:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T08:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.any.hu\/?p=430462"},"modified":"2019-04-18T08:48:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T08:48:43","slug":"simply-all-you-want-to-know-about-banking-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.any.hu\/en\/simply-all-you-want-to-know-about-banking-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Simply\u2026 all you want to know about banking cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our colleagues at ANY Security Printing Company are all really proficient in their job. They are simply good at it, they have gained huge experience for the years spent in ANY and they have great knowledge. G\u00e1bor Simon, project manager, is one of our colleagues and knows everything about banking cards, and will share a part of this huge knowledge with our readers in a clear and readable manner. Please, welcome his series that is just starting and if you like it, share it, let others read it, too.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026 about my work<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I was also surprised when I realized that I have been \u2019playing cards\u2019 for more than 20 years. You might say it is a serious dependence even if I don\u2019t do it in a casino as a gambler waiting for a royal flush. My cards are described in standards, and if you want to be precise about them, look for information around the standards ISO\/IEC 7810, 7811, 7816 or in 14443<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I have been a project manager for some time, and I have nearly been all in card-related area, almost even a hanged man, when we managed to start a considerable project on schedule with photo-finish only. In addition to projects management, I also consider it an important part of my work to support our partners who find themselves in this area that is unknown to them. It must be admitted that it is not easy to obtain the knowledge related to my plastics. I often meet people who would be glad if someone explained to them simply what was worth knowing about these cards and what was behind each mystical or mysterious or a deliberately over-mystified detail.<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently I have had the idea to write in the series \u2019Simply\u2026\u2019 about some topics that can be interesting for people dealing with this area, or it may also be read by people who are interested in their banking card just in general. I have a hunch that the latter ones are more.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have to add that I believe in using official communication forms because, in my opinion, they enrich our language, but this time I do not think that these texts should be the forum to serve this purpose. I hope you can excuse me for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not promise to publish with clockwork accuracy, since it is not my key activity now, but I will try to achieve some sort of regularity. In addition, I will try to comply with the title and to write about some interesting things in relation to the cards in a simple manner. If you find my articles interesting, please, simply share them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us start it. This time, in an unusual way, I would start with not just one but with two articles; please, find some thoughts about banking cards next below.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026 about banking cards<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"I don\u2019t want to be too \u2018scientific\u2019. Banking card, in my writing, is a small plastic card we use for payment almost every day and that\u2019s all. Its use is very simple, but the background technology is rather sophisticated. This is the reason why it is secure but also mystic, as we can spend even a serious credit limit, using a small plastic card with a size of 8.5 x 5.5 centimeters. It is really shocking.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately, nowadays there is a complex protection system to provide the security of the transactions, which is very hard to deceive. It is most likely to live in the neighborhood of a person who won the lottery than a person whose banking card was \u2018hacked\u2019. However, card frauds still exist, but they are almost entirely based on human factors and not on that the data were stolen out of the chip.<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides the human side, the weak link in this field is the magnetic strip which is luckily a disappearing technology. If we want to find an analogy in case of banking cards, it may be most like the tail bone of the human being, which is a vestige of the evolution. There are some facts, however, that are worth clarifying in relation to magnetic strip.<\/span><\/p>\n