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Comment by cfinke

The iCache (from 2007) had an interesting solution to the security issue that everyone is mentioning:

[A]ctivate the device with a fingerprint on its biometric strip, scroll through a list of cards on its screen and choose one. Out pops a plastic card with a magnetic stripe, temporarily loaded with the chosen card's data. Just swipe the card and pop it back into the iCache. After one use, the information on the card disappears.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/23/technology/one_credit_card.b...

Although I'm not sure if the information disappears after the swipe or after it's loaded back into its case.

parent cfinke 13 years ago

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