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Topic	Does the US not really have "Tap to Pay" on their credit cards?
Kyuubi4269 06/23/18 4:52:59 AM #42:	Yellow posted... When you "tap to pay", do you enter a PIN on the machine? Or anything? So in theory there's nothing stopping an attacker from carrying around a super beefy NFC transmitter/receiver and taking payments from everyone they walk past? Not in theory, in practice. A guy in London travelled on the bus scanning people's pockets back when the limit was 20. Moral of the story, pay with your phone which only pays out when unlocked. --- Scloud posted... Its like he wants two things at the same time. <cite>Kyuubi4269 posted [p:903805529] in Does the U... [t:76740691]...</cite> <quote><cite>Yellow posted...</cite> <quote>When you "tap to pay", do you enter a PIN on the machine? Or anything? So in theory there's nothing stopping an attacker from carrying around a super beefy NFC transmitter/receiver and taking payments from everyone they walk past? </quote> Not in theory, in practice. A guy in London travelled on the bus scanning people's pockets back when the limit was 20. Moral of the story, pay with your phone which only pays out when unlocked. --- Scloud posted... Its like he wants two things at the same time.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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