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Old Aug 13, 2015, 2:42 pm
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RedLight2015
 
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Originally Posted by wco81
Samsung announced Samsung Pay, which uses MST to beam data to mag stripe card terminals.

So mag stripe readers are suppose to be phased out over time right?
There will always be magnetic stripe readers thanks to those things called gift and loyalty cards. In fact even Tesco loyalty cards in the UK are mag stripe. They'll always be around for things like this that just don't need the security from a chip.
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