What is wrong with straight people? Are they okay?

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No dad it's not hormones I just accidentally tapped my card at the store and instantly grew a set of boobs.

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  • [–] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Paying for things is feminine. You should punch the cashier and shout “this is mine!” like a real man.

    /s, obviously

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago

    Instructions unclear, my penis is stuck in a card reader and I have a lifetime ban from Chipotle.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    When I was a cashier, there was definitely a subset of people - usually the same people wearing maga hats - who did refuse to use the tap. They believed it was insecure. I looked it up, it's slightly more secure than the chip (if only because contactless systems are not yet susceptible to counterfeit card reader attachments).

    It was pretty annoying too, because I was frequently stationed at a register that had a broken chip reader. Some people would get frustrated very quickly and, like, start rage-jamming the card into the machine repeatedly. It's kind of scary how many people go from 0-60 unhinged at checkout.

    After learning about the security aspect, and because of that broken reader, I made it a point to educate everyone I could about the tap. A lot of people aren't even aware their card can do that stuff.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I exercise ultimate security by just having no money. If anybody manages to open the Pandora's Box that is my bank account, best of luck to them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How is it more secure? Surely needing the card + pin is more secure than just carrying the card its self.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So from what I remember, the chip and the tap use pretty much the same authentication systems under the hood. They're pretty identical in that way. The pin number and how that's implemented is kind of a joke, because every card reader has ways to accept a payment from a card without even needing the pin (usually). Still better to use a pin of course, and that's something the tap supports too.

    Like I said before, right now a common threat to chip cards is spoof devices that criminals try to surreptitiously install onto legitimate card readers. Like a hardware keylogger basically. So - and as far as I know, this might not even be true anymore - the one main advantage the tap has over the chip is that it is not susceptible to these spoof reader devices.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    My idea was that if someone gets my card, they'll still need pin. Plus I disabled withdrawals by card. And after disabling NFC, it doesn't even seem to show the card number + expiration that I could just scan with https://github.com/devnied/EMV-NFC-Paycard-Enrollment (the numbers show in older versions), which could be done by tapping my pocket. Online payments often need 3D Secure, though unfortunately, not always.

    However, nowadays I start to encounter a lot of contactless only terminals, so I just started switching to cash. Vending machines still typically take coins.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's more secure to have a card that can't do the tap

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you have evidence for this?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yes, I work with the things. Skimmers can steal a bunch of personal info and possibly vault your card (although that would tie the charge down to a payment processor and could flag the risk mechanisms, so it's not likely to go on for long)

    But you can charge people smaller amounts and set it up to not require a pin, then it'll return back the name on the card and a bunch of other stuff, like the last 4 digits on the card, card issuer, and expiration date

    I'm sure you could walk through a busy city and get enough names to make that sellable to scammers, or leave skimmers around long term

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You are correct, but payment processors are this weird system of neoptism in the US. Like 5 companies make most of the terminals, three companies issue the cards, but that link in between? It's so much more of a shit show than you could imagine

    It's fundamentally based on security through legislation. There's a lot of cracks, if someone didn't get greedy they could easily abuse the system without it leading back to them

    I don't want to write a how-to guide or give any pointed hints, but it has been a shocking experience to learn about

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    [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    This pairs well with my draft article “Penetration fascination slows wireless charging adoption”

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Can someone make a shitty shop of a card reader with a card in it and a aheago face please?

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What is wrong with straight people? Are they okay?

    Why are y'all taking this seriously?

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  • As a straight person, I can safely say "no". Please send help

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    broke: tapping your card
    woke: thrusting it
    bespoke: not making any contact with the terminal to assert dominance

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    How does one slam a bill on the counter breaking it?

    Ohhhhh... Were you talking about breaking the counter?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    For true contactless payment I do neither. I just hover my card / handset near the reader.

    Is there something I should know about myself?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes. That you should be waving it over the reader and saying "you don't require payment" loud enough for the cashier to hear

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This guy has definitely fucked a chip reader.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    And if you hover instead of tap?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    the seconds sentence is like satire but it's twitter so idk

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    There is nothing more fragile than the masculinity of "bros" who worship masculinity.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I do the thrust, but it's because I'm old and forget that tapping is an option.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    That is so needlessly and intensely erotic

    Penetrative thrust into the chip reader 😩

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Real men take what they want and don't apologize. If you're not serving 25-life for multiple petty robberies that escalated to attempted murder for no discernible reason other than insecurity about your dick size then you're not a real man.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Nonsense. You assert dominance by laying your credit dick across its POS face. Nothing fem about that.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    I usually end up rubbing mine all over the terminal because each one seems to be a special snowflake with the NFC spot and I can just hear the voice in my head: "That's not it... That's not it either" then the cashier has to show me exactly where it is.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Here's exactly what my feed looks like. I'd say this is further evidence that the straights are not okay.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    What a bananas take.

    "I'm so horny at all times it feels like a goddamn fever dream, a literal full beard is the only thing that even slows me down. Everyone needs to cover themselves in one way or another, otherwise the urge to just dick them down on sight is too much, it's unreasonable to expect me and other men to simply resist."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I insert mine vigorously because my NFC chip doesn't seem to work reliably.

    Now I might remember to look them in the eye while I transact.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    i only ever tapped my card---- despite some times where it didnt work-

    anyway - this is almost certainly a joke kinda post ~ ~

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Actually the chip slot is a bussy, and therefore gay

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