I don't use tap to pay so I decided to do away with that attack vector entirely. If you shine a flashlight through your card you can see where the antenna traces go. One hole punch later and I don't have to worry about it at all. These stories about cards being read from several feet away sound like bullshit. I am more concerned that if I leave my card somewhere it could be picked up and used for several small purchases before hitting the tap to pay limit. We just now got to move past signature based transactions to chip and pin, so why they would immediately add a feature that bypasses the pin is beyond me.
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