So, I was about to pay for a lunch using NFC, but then I checked on my phone and the only NFC apps it has are Google and Samsung’s.

Which apps I can use to do NFC that will not sell all my bank data?

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Just tap your card. I’m baffled about why people think it’s important to use their phones.

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      2 days ago

      Tapping your card shares the card number. Paying with your phone doesn’t.

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        2 days ago

        I will check on that but I had thought that the point of moving from mag stripe to chip cards was to stop exposing the card number. The is instead a 2 way encrypted conversation between the chip and the bank server. I had expected the phone app to do about the same thing.

        Also, payment terminals (I was once pretty familiar with them) are likely to be more secure than phones.

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          21 hours ago

          Yeah you’re right. Mastercard says tapping your card also sends a tokenized version or the card number.