On 1/3/2016 6:20 PM, Doris Night wrote:

> My MIL has a credit card, but I'm not sure how often she actually uses
> it.
>
> I was in the grocery store with her last week, and when we got to the
> check-out she said she wanted to use her card, then she handed it to
> me and asked me if I'd do it. Then she whispered her PIN to me.
>
> I took the card, waved it over the pay-pass screen*, and handed it
> back to her. "Easy!" I said to her.
>
> *In Canada, we don't have to swipe a card and enter a PIN. We just
> have to touch a screen with the card. The whole thing takes about 1.5
> seconds.

That's the RFID chip in the recent cards. Those are the ones you want to
protect from chip readers that thieves carry these days. A tin foil hat
for your credit card so to speak, but in this case it isn't paranoia.

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