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Ironically, contactless has been the source of new types of skimmer attacks. A skimmer could just add an nfc coil and wouldn't even need to physically touch the card anymore.



Yes by all means, let's use the threat of a possible attack on EMV to continue to prop up the magstrip and completely disregard that pretty much all of the successful attacks against chip or contactless involve legacy magstrip emulation. If it's good enough for Granddad, it's good enough for me!


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