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Re:Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discovered ATM... by teeray on Monday May 02, 2016 @10:21AM (#11611569)
The worst part about that is it's going to start forming consumer habits. Everyone will trust the taped over sign as being from the merchant, when it could just as easily have been installed by a skimmer. Furthermore, if people get into the habit of swiping first, then using the chip when the terminal asks them to, that still leaves an opportunity to skim.

EDIT: Grammar

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Re:Can’t Hack a Hacker: Reverse Engineering a Discovered ATM... by 0xffff2 on Monday May 02, 2016 @03:16PM (#11614590)
A fraudster taping over the chip slot would be detected after a single skim though, since the terminal won't accept a swipe from a chip enabled card if it's set to process chip payments.
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