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  • noun Plural form of smartcard.

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Examples

  • Pat Conlon says the so-called smartcards will be operational by 2013. swipe a plastic card past a validating machine, which deducts the appropriate fare.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Pat Conlon says the so-called smartcards will be operational by 2013. swipe a plastic card past a validating machine, which deducts the appropriate fare.

    Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010

  • Many do not have access to a bank account that would let them pay bills by direct debit, meaning they must use more expensive prepayment systems such as smartcards, keys or tokens.

    Poor families must pay an extra £1,300 a year for basic goods and services 2011

  • Instead, users may rely on devices such as smartcards with embedded chips, tokens that generate random codes or biometric devices.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Strong authentication technologies, such as smartcards and other hardware devices, offer a secure means to distribute and control electronic identities.

    Site Home krisbock@microsoft.com 2010

  • Hardware-based security measures such as smartcards and USB tokens may need software-based additional authentication factors to make them safe, it has been claimed ...

    unknown title 2009

  • They provide the wireless magic behind touchless "smartcards" being used for more and more things, from touchless credit and debit cards, to building access keycards and reusable farecards for public transit systems.

    U.Va. Mobile 2009

  • Dutch security researchers rode the London Underground free for a day after easily using an ordinary laptop to clone the "smartcards" commuters use to pay fares, a hack that highlights a serious security flaw because similar cards provide access to thousands of government offices, hospitals and schools.

    ThreatsWatch: RapidRecon 2009

  • These may be used against devices such as smartcards or against systems implemented on computers.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • These may be used against devices such as smartcards or against systems implemented on computers.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

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