[ericmason]

Will skimmers be rendered obsolete by chip cards? It seems like this will all be over when the last magnetic strip reader is shut down. Although I've never seen a chip reader at a gas station, so it may be a while.

[kbart]

It is impossible (yet) to hack chip & pin. The problem is that even chip cards have a magstripe that can be skimmed. EMV[1] enabled fallback funtionality by default, which is the biggest issue imho. Basically, if your chip is broken, a terminal goes through fallback mechanism and uses magstripe instead. This way you can clone a card with "broken" chip and copied magstripe. Some banks allow to disable (opt-out) magstripe for chip cards, so unless you are in US, you should do that. I've seen some people intentionally scratched magstripe, but I'm not sure it's a very good idea.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV

[emp_zealoth]

Or, you know, take your fingernail and scratch the shit out of the stripe. Or play with some strong magnets. Or sand paper. Or... you get the point

[ROFISH]

I wish more places accepted NFC tokenized solutions like Apple Pay or similar. Replay attacks can't occur for those that got the raw data somehow.

[callmeal]

Chip-and-pin cards have been hacked.

https://www.rt.com/usa/354657-chip-pin-cards-blackhat/

[startling]

AIUI, no: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JABJlvrZWbY

This is a talk from 2012, so things may have changed.