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No one claimed they're as bad as magstripes, only that they are not 100% perfectly secure.
by PhasmaFelis 7y ago
No one claimed they're as bad as magstripes, only that they are not 100% perfectly secure.
- orf 7y agoNobody claimed they where 100% secure, at any point in this thread, during the development of the technology or during the rollout.
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoThen we're all agreed, and I have no idea what repolfx is so indignant about.
- repolfx 7y agoBut if chip cards are much, much more secure than before and chip breaches are negligable (which they are), then why is the default presumption of fraud being the user's fault unfair? Users can and do write their PINs down, give them to other people and engage in other unsafe practices. That's by far the most common way chip cards are breached: social engineering. I think there's a limit to how much liability system vendors should be expected to take. Insisting on all-corporate liability all the time, even for cases that are basically unsolvable like users deliberately giving away credentials, just socialises the cost of careless behaviour on all card users. Why bother upgrading security at all, in that case?