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by account42 22 days ago
> and with NFC the owner might not have changed the default keys

Or the use case doesn't depend on any protected bits. A lot of NFC chips are being used as glorified ID tags even if the hardware could do more. And what actual security the hardware provides varies a lot - it's more like a gradient from dumb ID to full java card than a clean distinction.

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Ah yes, very true