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Mag stripes via fingerprinting of the actual stripe, can make make them more secure than EMV or contactless. Both the standard card data and the underlying mag
by jgalt212 6y ago
Mag stripes via fingerprinting of the actual stripe, can make make them more secure than EMV or contactless.
Both the standard card data and the underlying magnetic fingerprint of the card is read, all in a single swipe. [1]
[1] https://www.magtek.com/product/magnesafe-intellihead https://www.magtek.com/product/magnesafe-intellihead
- Nursie 6y agoThat's still not really "more secure" than EMV, which includes active security measures like PIN validation capabilities, various active anti-fraud measures like offline velocity checks, transaction amounts encoded in cryptographic tokens, and which can in theory be remotely disabled etc. I guess it makes it "more /just as able to be authenticated as a genuine card" though.
- jgalt212 6y agoYes, I hear you. It would then come down to what's easier to do correctly, authenticate an EMV transaction or read and validate the fingerprint of a card's mag stripe. To the best of my knowledge, I don't think anyone has been able to replicate a mag stripe's fingerprint on another card's mag stripe. However, this security measure has probably seen a few orders of magnitude less adversaries than EMV and RFID have.