[jimrandomh]

The fundamental problem is that credit cards are built around a model where credit card numbers are theoretically supposed to be secret, but every random retailer has to have them to process transactions. If credit cards were electronic devices, like in Europe, rather than fancy pieces of paper with a number written on them, then fraud would drop, and retailers would be freed of a massive burden. But American banks aren't up to the task of creating that sort of infrastructure, so instead they blame it on whichever poor retailer happened to have its computers broken into.

[PuercoPop]

YES! Paul Chiusano wrote in detail about the fundamental broken model of 'secure transaction' http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-actually-secure-pay...

[bsder]

This is coming. Chip-and-pin are slated to start rolling out in the US in 2015.

[brewdad]

Chip-and-Signature. Chip-and_Pin is not yet on the horizon for the US.

[kapnobatairza]

Not on the horizon for whom? I'm running a startup that already has combination magstripe/Chip and PIN payment dongles for smartphones ready to sell to the US market.

The problem is there aren't many chipped cards at all.