Re:Apple Pay’s long road to paying off is getting shorter
by feygeubdjvf on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:52AM
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> Chip + Signature is a dumb USian thing because merchants didn't want to change their readers to have a secure PIN pad.
there's a write up on this that i cannot find. the reason was actually that some criminal organization with ties to lots of political pacs had their money cow being fraud (or money laundering) on gas stations. so they forced gas stations to never update the pins for this very specific reason.
there's a write up on this that i cannot find. the reason was actually that some criminal organization with ties to lots of political pacs had their money cow being fraud (or money laundering) on gas stations. so they forced gas stations to never update the pins for this very specific reason.