This made me laugh more than I would've thought. Excellent meme. 10/10
Now how about contactless payments without visa or MasterCard.
It would have been nice if crypto didn’t turn into a network of pyramid schemes.
Like, I am sympathetic to the idea. I mined a Bitcoin a long time ago (and lost it in intervening years). But holy moly, did it erupt into a tire fire.
GNU+Linux is currently being used to kill civilians in several wars, but we don't feel the need to point that out every time somebody says they use Arch btw.
Good tech can be used by bad people without everybody having to distance themselves from the tech itself.
That's not to say that BTC is good tech, but it's a decent proof of concept to free digital transactions from monopolists and tyrants.
Non American credit cards when
France has the national CB system, independent from American systems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB_Bank_Card_Group
I'm European, I technically have a MC credit card which I'll use on the rare occasions I need a credit card, but the vast majority of the time it's debit card or direct transfers (what they're now calling wero).
Works without connection too🔥
Contactless payment works without connection. Now, the technical marvel is that it works even if the phone is dead.
I'll do one better:
My payment card was just a bit too wide to fit in my cellphone's cover. The phone's own NFC antenna is at the top - and I use it all the time - so the card had to be at the bottom of the cover to avoid triggering the phone all the time, in portrait orientation so-to-speak.
So I dissolved the card in acetone to extract the NFC chip and its antenna, then carefully reshaped one end of the antenna so it's a bit less wide (and since I couldn't modify the length of the wire or the number of turns in any way to avoid de-tuning the antenna too much, I sort of accordioned one side of the rectangle to accommodate the extra length of wire).
Then I set the new shape of the antenna permanently by carefully applying a piece of packing tape over it, flipped it over, taped over the other side to seal everything, then carefully cut around the new, ultra-thin, stubbier contactless payment "card".
Now it fits really smartly in my cellphone cover!
Peak Lemmy behaviour I love it
"Please use chip reader".....
Have you ever run into difficulty with needing to authenticate with chip+PIN? Like while traveling?
That would be my big with with this; it would make it very difficult to pass a PIN check, to say the least!
Super cool idea. I might just try it myself and see if I run into issues.
What I modified was in fact a contactless payment token. It had the form factor of a payment card, but it only does NFC.
I have another card for chip+pin.But I almost never use it where I live, because all limits were lifted on contactless payments a few years ago. If I try to pay something really expensive contactless, it will ask me for the pin - which is specific to the payment token.
I just wanted to say your dad is definitely proud of you dude
>ExtremeDullard
>most interesting post
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Wow.
Next time someone calls me a maniac, I'll show them this.
Definitely doesn't live up to their username.
You just had to 1-up everyone here...
The fact it's secured with a piece of sellotape is just *chef's kiss*.
You are fucking crazy. I love you.
Kudos for the effort. With that said, this would definitely raise some eyebrows if you have to return the card when getting a new one.
I've never had to do that... Just say you lost it.
Depends on how fussy the bank is, but yeah.
I dissolved the card in acetone to extract the NFC chip and its antenna,
Wouldn't the acetone also dissolve the insulation around the antenna wire? So when it touches itself, it shorts itself out, and -- electrically speaking -- you only have one turn of thicker wire?
Wire that thin is usually insulated with an enamel coating. I'd guess it's either unaffected by acetone, or just tougher to breakdown. Allow the card to dissolve, but remove and dry asap, don't let it linger longer than necessary.
Veritasium demoed this a few weeks ago while discussing tap-to-pay security and a vulnerability with apple pay+visa.
You clever, I like.
Nice meme, but for us out there with at least a fully virtual card (some companies provide such benefits), we need a real MyAss-Pay alternative
I recently found Walt, but it's a work in progress for now. The app is avalaible though
Maybe a solution similar to this could work: https://github.com/nfcgate/nfcgate/blob/v2/doc/mode/Relay.md
Have the card at home sitting on a reader connected to your homelab, add NFC module to PinePhone and simply relay the traffic over network.
this can be useful too! https://f-droid.org/packages/de.tu_darmstadt.seemoo.nfcgate
probably requires root though
At that point one should just https://dangerousthings.com/product/vivokey-thermo/ and get a free thermometer as well
Take that Android! This works even with the phone powered off! It works even without the phone at all!
Wait...
Ironic it's a monobank card, it's mobile only and you have to use a locked unrooted googled phone (or an iPhone) because big brother said so.
TLDR: some woman did a facial recognition log in method, the bank said that the photos are not stored and deleted instantly, but because there was a Slovenian flag (looked like russian in the photo)in the background, she got her bank account blocked and the CEO posted the verification image online
Edit: wrong link
makes you wonder what the CEOs of all those age verification companies are doing with all the photos
We know that the NSA and probably whoever dedicated enough can potentially access webcams remotely too, and millions of kids now have cameras in their room at all times through their phone or computer.
Some banks issue stickers for phones without NFC. It's another physical card but contactless only and very thin (probably with an aluminum strip antenna).
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