By cballard
I will always use Apple Pay if available, since it prevents tracking by evil merchants and leaks by hackers via unique credit card numbers.
I do not understand why the US uses these terrible chip and signature cards, which were a repeated source of frustration for me in Europe this year, since they don’t work anywhere.
Maybe they think Americans are too dumb to comprehend a PIN, despite having used them for years on ATMs? If so, why add the time-wasting signature? If we’re not doing chip and pin (we should), why not chip and nothing? My signature is a different squiggle every time, there’s no way they’re doing computer version on that in time to verify the transaction (if they could even decode it at all).
Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10646945
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