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Fraud & Chip and PIN
Friday, February 12th, 2010 | Author: Watty

I've always said that Chip & PIN was always about reducing the Bank's liability to Fraud. Not actually really more secure or reducing Fraud. With a signature you can prove it's not you and get the money back, with Chip & PIN you can't. Thus Bank "Fraud" drops. But it gets worse. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/chip_pin_security_unpicked/ Of course RFID for credit/cash cards or Passports is even more stupid. A technology designed to replace Barcodes (which can be photocopied) and RFID is not inherently a technology designed for Secure applications. Because RFID is unique "fingerprint" even if you don't decode it, an RFID "reader" at each location that your "mark" might use lets you track where the RFID is. If the "mark" realises, you could of course be tracking someone else that had the "tag" dumped on them.

 

See also here http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/01/26/how-online-card-security-fails/

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PIC16F8xx and 128×64 GLCD
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 | Author: Watty

I looked at Microchip & Hitech picc, Mikro C, CCS and others. I went back to JAL, 1/2 a day got graphics library for KS0107 / KS0108 used in JE-AN1286404 Graphics LCD working. Animation, Circle, arbitrary lines, box etc. Also text compatible with Text LCD libraries & programs.

I'll be using this in a few projects. Pinout is different from usual KS0107 GLCDs:

HQM1286404 / JE-AN 1286404 LCD Pin connections:

1: VDD is connected to +5V

2: VSS is connected to OV /GND

3: V0 – LCD operating voltage is connected from a 10K or 20k Ohm POT (Between OV and -5V from pin 18)

4 .. 11: Data Bus 0 to 7 is connected to port d

12: Chip Select 1

13: Chip Select 2

14: Reset  (hold at +5V for normal operation)

15: R/W – Read=1 or Write =0

16: D/I aka RS – Data or Instruction (Registers)

17: EN Enable is connected to B5 18: Negative voltage out to feed 20k Ohm POT for view angle

19: Positive voltage for LED backlight is connected to +5V

20: Negative voltage for LED backlight is connected to GND. On my pre-wired panel this is red wire! (feed LED backlight via 47 Ohms in series with + or – pin.)

I had to reverse CS1 and CS2 in the JAL library, but the wiring above works with LCDStudio for PC parallel Port (RW = 0V and RESET aka RES = +5V, connect Power first! I used USB for +5V) More details with projects, schematics etc on http://www.techtir.ie soon

Tested on PIC16F877A 20MHz using JAL. Same SW should work on 16F887 (replacement) and others with enough pins.

Other models of GLCD that are compatible may have different pin layout and even +5V and 0V reversed (even on similar model names of same make!)

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