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in parts of Europe you can use Revolut, where you can choose whether to enable or disable contactless payments, chip and pin, ATM withdrawals and online payment
by gabipurcaru 8y ago
in parts of Europe you can use Revolut, where you can choose whether to enable or disable contactless payments, chip and pin, ATM withdrawals and online payments, depending on what you want to use the card for. You can even keep all of them off and only activate a specific feature for a few minutes when needed.
- gambiting 8y agoI can do all of these with my normal bank, but there is no way to request a stripe-less debit/credit card.
- ryanlol 8y agoJust remove the stripe or wipe it yourself.
- gambiting 8y agoAny tips on how to do so?
- LeonM 8y agoYou can stratch it off, or use a very powerful magnet to erase the strip. When scratching be careful not to damage the NFC antenna which loops around in the card.
- Tor3 8y agoIt doesn't need a 'very powerful magnet'. In fact I'm surprised how easy it is to make the magnetic strip unreadable. The way I (unintentionally) do it is simply to keep the cards together in the wallet. Their individual magnetic stripes destroy each other. All the cards are unreadable now, except for the newest card. And no, there aren't any other magnetic or electro-whatever device nearby.
- tjoff 8y agoActually, the prudent thing is to actively damage the NFC antenna. There is not much point in damaging the magnetic stripe but leaving wireless functionality... they are exactly the same thing only wireless works from a greater distance.
- gambiting 8y agoThat's absolutely not true. Magnetic stripe is just a dumb carrier of information - you can buy a $5 reader off eBay and read every card in the world, it's not protected in any way. Modern NFC cards do not surrender their information to some random reader - they need to receive a valid cryptographic key first to reply with the data - and such key can only be produced by an authorized terminal. A normal NFC reader will not read any data off a contactless card, it's just not possible(yes I am aware that there have been attacks demonstrated, but they were all timing based, with extremely limited use in real world).
- tjoff 8y agoDepends on the card. All NFC cards in Sweden are just as dumb as a magnetic stripe cards. I actually believe all cards in Europe are but I could be wrong. It's there, in plain text, any normal NFC-reader will get you everything (there even are android-apps that does it in the play-store).
- roywiggins 8y agoI've found walking into a room with an MRI scanner works marvelously.