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Re:Apple Plans iPhone for Japan With Tap-to-Pay for Subways by the_mitsuhiko on Friday August 26, 2016 @03:04PM (#12368508)
> You could make an app that pretends to be a payment terminal so you hold your phone near someone else's and trick them into paying you as they try to unlock their phone with TouchID.

So? You can already do that. You can put an NFC shell around your phone which connects with bluetooth and that is being done already. You can touch an Android phone or anything else. Same story.

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Re:Apple Plans iPhone for Japan With Tap-to-Pay for Subways by MBCook on Friday August 26, 2016 @06:39PM (#12369799)
You can't do that because you have to buy extra hardware. All of a sudden everything you need would be built in. That makes it WAY more practical of an attack. All of a sudden ANY phone can be used.
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