But then, four years ago, he was astonished to find himself embroiled in Operation Ore, the UK's largest ever police hunt against internet paedophiles. He was arrested on suspicion of possession of indecent images of children, downloading indecent images of children and incitement to distribute indecent images of children.

Hampshire Police took away his computer and data storage devices including flash drives, CDs and floppy disks, as well as examining the computer and storage devices that he used at work.

The effect was devastating. When his employers became aware of the reason he had been arrested, he was abruptly dismissed from his £120,000 a year job, and close members of his family disowned him.

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But the police's computer technicians take several months to examine these, and Mr Bunce could not afford to wait to repair the damage done to his reputation. "I knew there'd been a fundamental mistake made and so I had to investigate it."

The UK banking industry chose to deploy Chip & PIN cards that do not encrypt the data exchanged between the card and the PED during a transaction. By tapping these communications, fraudsters can obtain the PIN and create a magnetic strip version of the card to make ATM withdrawals in the UK and abroad. We examined two of the most popular PEDs used in the UK and found that cardholders are exposed to simple and cheap attacks.

Our investigations of why this failure took place also discovered flaws in the certification system which is supposed to protect customers. Overall responsibility for certification lies with the banking industry itself and the process of evaluation is hidden from the public. Despite our findings, none of the PEDs we examined are to be removed from service.

Local mirror of paper detailing PED insecurities

Had to experiment a bit on 1/9/08 to get the retention offer. The steps are different from those posted below, as I believe they changed their menus.

called the 1-877-993-6264 number
* Pressing 1 to cancel my service resulted in a request for my member number and then an immediate request to confirm my cancellation (no retention offer). I hung up.
I called back.
This time I pressed 2 for "more information on any of your benefits".
I pressed 1 to enter my member number. It said to get me to the right representative, please choose from options. I pressed 1 for questions about my monthly fee. Then it offered me the option to cancel service, and when I picked that, it offered me the $29.95 for a full year which would automatically cancel at the end of the term. I confirmed to accept the offer and authorize the charge to my card. It thanked me twice and the call ended. I was in.

Here are the modified steps first posted by Trinidon2k:

Pasted this link into IE
https://www.privacymatters.com
Signed up by clicking 7 day free trial on bottom left
Submitted name and stuff
Submitted CC (virtual card) info
Clicked No Thanks to whatever the offer was
Got my membership number (mine took over 2 hours to come via email)
Called 1-877-993-6264
Pressed 1 and entered my membership number
Pressed 1 for questions about bill
Pressed 1 to cancel
Got message about $29.95 for a year that will automatically cancel on Sept. 21, 2008.
Pressed 1 to accept
The automated lady voice thanked me twice and that was it