Encrypted chips coming to consumers' credit card rescue
418 views · Published 1 October 2015 · 2:26 · Indexed 10 November 2026
Channel: Gulf Coast News · 2015 · News & Politics
The U.S. is one of the last countries to ditch magnetic strips for chips. Europe's had them since the 1990s. Magnetic stripes make it easy for hackers to clone cards. No matter where it's used - the grocery store, the movie theater - it's the same info being sent from that stripe.
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