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Old 10-11-2014, 12:57 PM   #6
taustin
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Originally Posted by Little.Egret View Post
https://www.plastc.com/faqs
"Soon. Every Plastc Card comes with a deactivated chip. We’ll be sending out an over-the-air firmware update shortly after the product ships to enable the chip and allow you to use your card in all Chip and PIN (EMV) machines/devices."

Which ought to be impossible since I understood part of the point of the chip was to prevent the card being cloned or someone who had possession of the card extracting the PIN.
It's only (supposed to be) impossible without the cooperation of the issuing bank. Which would require them to negotiate bank by bank with all card issuers. And if they succeed, and you lose your card, then all your cards are compromised together.

I'm not seeing this as a particularly useful thing.
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