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What you are describing is essentially EMV, except that your bank has gone to the trouble of picking your private key and embedding it in a card you carry around and insert into pa…

Not much. The chip doesn't transmit any credit card numbers. What's really happening in an EMV transaction is the amount due is transmitted along with some identifying information …

It's only an issue with EMV Fallback, which you'd probably not need if you have a backup card that is good. Basically if the chip or near-field antenna on your card fail, the fallb…