Originally Posted by
Points Scrounger
Heavy tourist destinations like Florida, Vegas, etc. are going to have a slew of PIN-preferring foreign EMV cards. I had thought European issuers decline PIN bypass at chipped terminals (only magstripe)?
Bypass is totally different from simply not having support for PIN at all, which is what this special firmware would tell the issuer. Otherwise foreign cards would have a seriously difficult time being used with Square (which doesn't even have a PIN pad).