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You'll want an RFID blocking wallet or sleeve to supplement this plan. Thieves will use an RFID skimmer and just wave it near your pocket to grab the info off the card when it responds.



Has anyone ever shown a practical attack for EMV contactless?

I know the old mag stripe emulation was vulnerable, but EMV contactless shouldn’t hand out the card number and uses cryptographic signatures. You’d have to capture and play back a transaction (not randomly scan a card) and there are time stamps and transaction counters that would be wrong and the terminal ID wouldn’t match.




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