It utterly infuriates me that banks won't let you use their mobile apps -- which are inevitably their websites packaged in a bundle, with added tracking -- on a rooted (or jailbroken) phone, even though I am sure that the overwhelming majority of users on android who have a rooted device are likely to be the most technically sophisticated, with (in my case) the presence of mind to install updates to their four-year-o…
> expanding the contactless limit ... wallet sniping I am quite interested in the security details of NFC. Where is the best information you found? Unfortunately my searches found too little. BTW: apparently someone managed to use a fault in the protocol to steal well more than the limit. And by the way, if any product proposer mentions a "limit", in order not to be brainless they must also mention a "rate" (e.g. 10€…
-- "Contactless payment data can be picked up at a distance" (2013) https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-24743920 -- "Mobile device prevention of contactless card attacks", US patent, 2014; https://patents.google.com/patent/US9379841B2/en -- "Proximity verification for contactless card control and authentication systems", Proc. Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2015; https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2818000.2818004
-- Finally, a fairly good review article: "internet of Smart Cards: a pocket attacks scenario"; Intl. J. Critical Infrastructure Protection; 2019; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187454821...