Timeline for For chip credit cards, what's preventing me from breaking the chip to trigger the magstripe failsafe?
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| Dec 31, 2017 at 9:31 | comment | added | pri | @SergeBallesta Well, that makes sense, because NFC isn't trusted, and hence they were disabled. But chips on cards are thought to be more secure than magstripe. Which makes me wonder why would someone kill the chips on the card. | |
| Dec 31, 2017 at 9:26 | comment | added | Serge Ballesta | @PriyankGupta: I had never heard of deliberately breaking a chip, but I know NFC elements were often broken with a drill when the bank did not want (or could not) disable NFC payment, because there is little security on NFC and the NFC talks too much. It could broadcast the card holder identity and the last operations. | |
| Dec 31, 2017 at 5:12 | answer | added | Bobson | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 31, 2017 at 4:30 | vote | accept | Daffy | ||
| Dec 31, 2017 at 3:11 | comment | added | pri | @schroeder Just curious, why do people deliberately disable their chips? | |
| Dec 31, 2017 at 2:07 | answer | added | Stephen Touset | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 31, 2017 at 0:39 | comment | added | Daffy | @schroeder I was hoping to be wrong about that. Sigh | |
| Dec 30, 2017 at 23:53 | comment | added | schroeder♦ | Ultimately, nothing? People disable their chips all the time (small drill) | |
| Dec 30, 2017 at 23:39 | history | asked | Daffy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |