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Re:Square Arrives in Canada by msbarnett on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @01:50PM (#4694094)
They detect that and use swipe-authorization in those cases. But you can, and probably should, use the chip in Europe/Asia/Latin America where chip readers are widespread.

The banks have been distributing FAQs with all of these answers for years, btw.

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Re:Square Arrives in Canada by masklinn on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @05:09PM (#4695069)
> But you can, and probably should, use the chip in Europe/Asia/Latin America where chip readers are widespread.

It's still pretty common to have 2-mode readers there (wehere you can chip or swipe), though they're slowly becoming rarer and I can't remember anybody actually using swipe.

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