m3t00🌎@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoLet's move this along, future boylemmy.worldimagemessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up11.23Karrow-down132
arrow-up11.2Karrow-down1imageLet's move this along, future boylemmy.worldm3t00🌎@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square56fedilink
minus-squares_s@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down2·edit-22 years agoSkimming works because it attacks 1980s technology. Contactless is much more secure, given an extra 40 years of defending scams. Thinking of this as “just another attack vector” is laughably ignorant, really.
minus-squareeatthecake@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·2 years agoI tend to view the finance industry as a bunch of skimmers. Funnel money through as many companies as possible so everyone gets a fee. I was not thinking of security at all.
minus-squares_s@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-22 years agoTo be fair, I wasn’t expecting to hear that you were coming into a conversation about contactless payments, using a word like “skimming” and meaning something completely out-of-context. That’s a real doozie, yo.
minus-squareuis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoThat’s a real doozie: (GIF)
Skimming works because it attacks 1980s technology.
Contactless is much more secure, given an extra 40 years of defending scams.
Thinking of this as “just another attack vector” is laughably ignorant, really.
I tend to view the finance industry as a bunch of skimmers. Funnel money through as many companies as possible so everyone gets a fee.
I was not thinking of security at all.
To be fair, I wasn’t expecting to hear that you were coming into a conversation about contactless payments, using a word like “skimming” and meaning something completely out-of-context.
That’s a real doozie, yo.
That’s a real doozie: