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Re:Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloa... by jjmarr on Saturday April 06, 2024 @12:10PM (#39953359)
I'm in Canada and I can literally just tap the card itself on the reader. Every card has this ability and it can't be skimmed.
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Re:Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloa... by SanDiegoSun on Saturday April 06, 2024 @01:59PM (#39954168)
There are many demonstrations of contactless cards being “skimmed.”

Unless you store it in a wallet with a faraday cage, this is a laughable opinion to express.

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Re:Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloa... by jjmarr on Friday April 12, 2024 @05:19PM (#40017782)
It's not the same as traditional card skimming since you can clone the magnetic stripe you skimmed onto another card and buy things with it.

If you grab data from a tap transaction, you can't use that data to perform another tap transaction.

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