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> could just make it collect CC details with every transaction

Only if the card is swiped (magnetic stripe) rather than tapped or inserted. EMV doesn't expose the full card details to the merchant; the card signs a payload with its internal private key and transmits it.

And the OP's root access wouldn't give card details in any case, because they didn't get root on the part of the reader that processes the transactions.



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