'Tap-to-pay' charged credit cards through bags, pockets at restaurants, stores
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#2The way this story is written, and the quotes they’ve pulled from people, makes it sound like tap to pay is this magical radio-wave daemon creeping around stealing your money.
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#3I don't use tap to pay so I decided to do away with that attack vector entirely. If you shine a flashlight through your card you can see where the antenna traces go. One hole punch later and I don't have to worry about it at all. These stories about cards being read from several feet away sound like bullshit. I am more concerned that if I leave my card somewhere it could be picked up and used for several small purchases before hitting the tap to pay limit. We just now got to move past signature based transactions to chip and pin, so why they would immediately add a feature that bypasses the pin is beyond me.
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#4Tap to pay is a lot better on phones and watches than with actual cards. I use Google Pay basically every time I buy anything.
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#5How is this system different to contactless payments all over Europe which have no such problem and have been widely used for years?
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#6How is this system different to contactless payments all over Europe which have no such problem and have been widely used for years?
The fact that there's a 30 EUR limit per transaction before the terminal spits out a PIN challenge in Europe.
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#7How is this system different to contactless payments all over Europe which have no such problem and have been widely used for years?
The fact that there's a 30 EUR limit per transaction before the terminal spits out a PIN challenge in Europe.
That limit doesn't exist for phone payments.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The fact that there's a 30 EUR limit per transaction before the terminal spits out a PIN challenge in Europe.
That limit doesn't exist for phone payments.
But then again those payments are not tap-to-pay as they require some form of authentication (e.g. FaceID).
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