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Is magstrip that’s the problem. It means as an exposed component that has to be in the environment and can’t be enclosed. NFC readers can read the chips through several millimetres of materials so they can be totally embedded.

Real solution is for North America to just get off Mag strip no one’s used it in the rest of the world in about 20 years.

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Goudewup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
They still use magstrips? That’s crazy

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yeah the US banking system is really archaic. They still use signatures as a form of security.
  
  I’m really not sure what the resistance to modernisation is. But it causes all sorts of problems like this, that the rest of the world just never experiences.
  
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- captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s still available and on your card but it’s only really used when the chip doesn’t work
  
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jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The NFC readers can read the non-NFC chip without it being physically inserted? I’ve never seen that before

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