Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tinus_hn 1848 days ago
In other news, Apple devices are not compatible with obsolete standards. Magstripe is insecure and obsolete and in no way a backup for nfc payments. Skimming is a thing.
1 comments

what? skimming is a thing and MST is not an insecure solution on top of magstripe, since it generates temporary cards per every few transactions. It is a backup for a traditional card, not something meant to be similar to NFC since its just a legacy method of payment that is still accepted more places than nfc.

you could try to use one of those temporary numbers but whats the likelyhood it expires before malicious reuse?