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Old Feb 15, 2013 | 8:12 am
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Originally Posted by Palal
Unlike Canada (and the rest of the civilized world) the US does not have chip+pin, so the zip code sort of acts as a pin to verify that the owner (or someone who knows the owner's zip code :-/) is using the gas pump.
Unfortunately, this is not a trivial conversion as it will require a substantial investment of many billions of dollars in new equipment throughout the cc payment systems.
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