I’ve been traveling a lot lately and, although I’ve read and had lots of commentary about a number of blog posts and news article recently relating to retail security, I haven’t had the time to write them down and post them…
So I’ve decided that I’m going to post a summary of the posts and articles that I’ve read over the last week or so that I’ve thought were interesting and relevant.  This isn’t what I’d really prefer to do - I’d much rather take the opportunity to rant about something …

This is a good, quick article from Wired in response to some recent news stories that the wireless carriers were trying to do an end-around on the credit card companies.  Some one finally got around to doing some actual investigation on what the carriers were doing and it’s not an end-around, Discover’s highly involved.
The article also talks about why the major card brands work and attempts at breaking the system and introducing a new model for credit cards (none of which have yet worked)…  Not really a security article, but …

Just got the January 2009 issue of Wired magazine and the first thing I notice is an article about the rise and fall of Max Butler - a hacker that tried to take over the ‘carder’ community.  Wired always does a good job writing these types of articles in a way that is engaging and it is a very interesting read.  I just looked and it’s not on the website, but if you pick up the hard copy, it’s in there…
I think it’s interesting that there are still people out …