Why is there a magnetic stripe on my card at all?

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Why do my UK card issuers insist on putting magnetic stripes on my payments cards? Why are they still embossing them? Where do they think I’m going to go on holiday? 1972?

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Will the Target breach boost EMV in the USA?

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How exactly does switching to the “chip and PIN” system used everywhere else in the world (except North Korea, I’m told) stop the kind of thing that’s been going on at Target?

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Card crime and nostalgia

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In America, card fraudsters are wrapping satellite dishes in tinfoil to stop terminals from going online and then using counterfeit and stolen cards to buy gas. Amazing! I had no idea that people still used satellites for this sort of thing.

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