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kaszanka | 1 year ago

AFAIK it only beats magnetic stripe cards, not EMV chip cards

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lxgr|1 year ago

EMV chip cards still contain your card number and expiry date.

Skimmers would need a way to also learn the CVC2 from the back of the card to use it at most (but not all!) online merchants, but that's feasible using a small camera or a waiter/cashier accomplice doing the skimming.

With Google Pay and Apple Pay, and similar mobile wallets, that number is never shared during payments (and in fact not even stored on the device).

jjmarr|1 year ago

They do, but you can't get the card number from reading the chip. The protocol is a challenge-response one based on a private key stored within the chip.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_Authentication_Program

You need to read the entire card number + cvc2 + expiry date with your camera. That's not skimming, that's just taking a photo of the card.

M95D|1 year ago

Any responsible user will learn the CVC, like any other password, and then erase it from the card.