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hparadizyesterday at 6:29 AM1 replyview on HN

We have chips but magnetic strips are still on most credit cards and payments are still accepted that way in many older payments gateways. From what I read on the topic the cost of lost business if this was disabled is greater than eating the cost of skimmer attacks. There is a several year plan to phase it out entirely. It's mostly because initially when chips came out a lot of business owners were angry that they had to buy new payment machines and good luck explaining this to a none tech person.


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Liquid_Fireyesterday at 10:17 AM

In the UK, many banks disable the magnetic strip by default, and you have to temporarily enable it from the bank's app/website if you want to use it.

You'd struggle to find a POS terminal that even has a reader for them in the UK. I've only ever had to enable them in the US or Japan.

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