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		jon-wood on July 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are McDonald’s Self Service Kiosks so hackable... My UK bank card has a mag stripe on it but I have to explicitly activate it via their mobile app, and it will be disabled again after seven days.

avianlyric on July 25, 2022 [–]

Only for ATM transactions. It’ll still work for normal transactions at a POS device, but they’re lower risk for the bank as it’s easy to perform chargebacks and recover the money

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