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Re:Certificate Transparency Log Compromised via Salt Vulnera... by vegardx on Monday May 04, 2020 @03:26AM (#23065410)
I sit close by to the people that deal with this at work, so my understanding is very limited. Payment processors, service providers, reconciliation, yatta yatta. We used to joke around with them about carrying cash, just in case. We stopped joking around when we realized they all did.
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Re:Certificate Transparency Log Compromised via Salt Vulnera... by AmericanChopper on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:05AM (#23066253)
Payment processor could mean a number of different things. It could mean a tiny gateway operator. The sort of thing that can fail quite happily without impact transaction processing (most services you use will be backed by redundant gateways).

I carry some cash too. But the times I’ve needed it were for things like an outage of the internet connection at a restaurant, or an issue with a payment terminal provider (or for the very uncommon cash-only merchant).

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