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Old Feb 7, 2014 | 3:33 pm
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kebosabi
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Originally Posted by freeflyin
While there have been great strides made in the security and implementation of EMV, NFC and such, I believe it may be a tough sell to the general public.
I profoundly remain optimistic that contactless would take off. It is practically the norm elsewhere outside the US, there are no problems with them, so any talk about "hackers stealing info from a mile away" or concerns like the photos on the wiki, are at least to me, akin to being too paranoid with tin-foil hat conspiracies.
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