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by pinebox 1373 days ago
Thanks, but the post you linked is making me irrationally angry. Why does a gas pump card reader need full internet connectivity?! It's outrageous! Just use the two wires to talk to a head unit in the building! Then it brings up the gas pump advertising screens which are already a sore point for me (two conveniently located stations have these, so I can't go there anymore because I find the accompanying audio intolerable).

The whole situation smells like it involves a lot of vendor lock-in, too (which I always hate to see).

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EMV is a very very chatty protocol, basically.