thescienceofobsession:

ishipanarmada:

The news keeps repeating a story about how the US will soon be getting Chip and Pin machines.

I will live for the moment when I can say I had a row with one.

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I’m still not exactly clear on what they are. Apparently I’ll be finding out!

They’re a type of credit card technology.  But they use a different technology that, frankly, is harder to hack than the type banks typically use in US cards and machines.  Hence, ‘chip-and-pin.’  American banks have been slow to switch over because they just didn’t want to spend the money to upgrade a bunch of machines and systems and re-issue cards.

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