Soundwaves to Protect from E-Commerce Fraud?

from the different dept

Here’s a new idea: install a chip into your credit card that emits a high pitched sound wave that humans can’t hear, but the computer can, to verify that you really have the card. It’s definitely a different idea. I wonder if it also makes dogs go crazy.


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