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Comment by creshal

It's depressing to see the US still treating EMV cards like a strange exotic novelty while Europe is already upgrading those again and moving to NFC-enabled cards after EMV has worked without any major issues for 20 years.

For small, repeated transactions you just hold the card to the reader and are done in 1-3 seconds. The first transaction on each reader and random transactions every 20-50$ (and all transactions above a $20 limit) will require chip+PIN verification, which seems to cut down fraudulent transactions for now.

parent creshal 11 years ago

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