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Re:Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow? by mavhc on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:22PM (#14639050)
Just set all your pins to be the same
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Re:Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow? by bzbarsky on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @02:57AM (#14643022)
That's assuming the issuer allows you to set the PIN. In many cases they do not, in my experience with both debit cards and chip+PIN cards (the one chip+PIN card I have in fact does not allow that).
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Re:Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow? by mugsie on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @05:03AM (#14643511)
This is in the US, with the broken Chip + PIN implementation.

I can go to pretty much any ATM in the EU and change the PIN on all of my cards.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are credit card chip readers so slow? by bzbarsky on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:34AM (#14646329)
Yes, I'm aware of that. I can't tell you why that difference exists, but it does.
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