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Re:Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks by cft on Friday May 01, 2026 @06:44PM (#47981363)
I also noticed that my Google Wallet cards no longer have expiration dates- when a card expires and they issue a new one, the Wallet card works without any intervention on my part
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Re:Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks by Marsymars on Friday May 01, 2026 @08:10PM (#47981972)
That's very much contrary to my experience just a couple months ago that I detailed in another post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981956
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Re:Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks by lxgr on Friday May 01, 2026 @07:05PM (#47981516)
Wallets usually don't store the card information directly anyway, but only a token, which can be re-associated with new underlying card details when the card is replaced.

The token itself does also have an expiry date (it's a mandatory field in most protocols), but that can be updated as well, I believe.

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