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Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by robertnn on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:01PM (#11305693)
I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time relating to this. In Sweden, we have had chip cards for a very long time (it feels like), and I've never heard anyone complain that it takes so much longer than swiping. I guess you're in a country where it is relatively new?

Could it be that your card readers are somehow worse compared to the ones we have here, which makes it more painful to use? Could it be that here we always use a PIN code as well, so that takes a bit of time anyway, and you do not?

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Re:NSA refused Clinton a secure BlackBerry like Obama, so sh... by andrewflnr on Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:15PM (#11306794)
GP is probably in the US, like me, where chip and PIN is pretty new. I can confirm that it tends to take a lot longer than swiping; I still do a lot of both swiping and chipping, so it's easy to compare.
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