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Nov 23, 2011, 4:50 am

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Originally Posted by D582

Yup...the wireless terminals are increasingly popular in Canada. While a lot of restaurants have adopted them as part of their chip migration, many restaurants here used them before Chip because our debit cards have always required PINs.

Do you have any sources to back that up? (I'm not doubting you, I just want to read for myself)

In Canada we have 3 different types of wireless terminals in use - Bluetooth, WiFi, and GSM/GPRS, so the security considerations for each is different.

I wonder is any leakage of data traffic between the wireless terminal and its base dangerous if the card involved is an EMV card combined with Dynamic Data Authentication? After all, ARQC and ARPC can't be reused and new ones have to be generated with the card present.

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