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		lmm on July 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable... It's only a few years ago that we started seeing cards without embossed numbers for taking impressions by rubbing.

Gigachad on July 25, 2022 [–]

I think that actually made more sense. In a power outage the bumps were the only backup. I had seen it used once at a petrol station. While there is close to no situation where a chip payment or nfc couldn’t be used.

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