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it wasn't too long ago that we were mostly paying for things by swiping our

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credit cards as furiously as you'd swipe toilet paper after eating that spicy

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burrito special yeah but the venerable

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magnetic stripe is being phased out in favor of EMV chips which have become

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quite common in most of the world over the past few years but are just now

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catching on with our friends in the United States but why are we ditching

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the magstripe in the first place unsurprisingly one reason is security

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mag Stripes Store data like card numbers and expiration dates in an unsecure

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manner meaning bad guys can steal the information quite easily in a variety of

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ways for example if you're somewhere like an ATM or gas station that only

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accepts mag stripe cards visually

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inspect the card reading equipment and give it a little jiggle to see if it's

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loose if something seems not quite right

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it's possible that someone has installed an inexpensive car skimmer which reads

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your card as you insert it into the slot and transmits the information to a

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nearby criminal who can then use your card number to at best waste your money

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and at worst make super suspicious purchases that could land you on some

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kind of fbii watch list and more skilled

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hackers can even sneak malware onto retail systems that's a lot more

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difficult to detect this is what happened in the US recently when tens of

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millions of customers had their data stolen when cyber criminals planted

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malware in the payment systems of the retail giant Target so how then do chip

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cards prevent these types of breaches well they use a form of public key

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cryptography you can learn more about that in general in this video but here's

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what happens specifically each time you insert your chip card into a reader the

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card generates a random code that's good for that transaction only depending on

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how exactly the encryption is implemented the terminal can use

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encryption keys to decrypt your account information and authorize this

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transaction even if it can't communicate with your credit card company unlike

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magstrip cards which always had to do this to process a transaction since each

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code is onetime use only it's totally useless to an attacker that intercepts

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it and if your card gets stolen it's extremely difficult for someone to clone

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the chip as opposed to magstripe cards which spit out your information as

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readily as a participant in a Watermill eating contest spits out

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seeds that visual aside many systems also now require the use of a pin or

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personal identification number so even if a thief tries to use your original

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card instead of cloning it the transaction won't be authorized unless

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they know your PIN a better solution than the old authentication method that

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only involved signing a receipt of course EMV chip cards are not foolproof

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aside from the constant arms race between financial institutions and black

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hats who try to crack their security there's also the backwards compatibility

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purposes of your card I mean many chip cards still have a MAG stripe which are

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just as vulnerable as ever and the chip doesn't do much to stop fraud in

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situations where someone can just enter a card number such as pretty much all

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online stores that have online shopping that being said it's still better than

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what we used to have but until we have James Bond style biometric scanning at

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every gas station and 7 11 in the freaking world keep your card close and

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think twice before using it at a shady Merchant you don't want to have your

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credit card limit maxed out by some dude who promises you an official lonus

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action figure with hot swappable sandals and a little version of the LT sweater

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after he says all you have to do is put your credit card information into the

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message box like I did I'm still waiting

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though I still watch it every Wednesday like clockwork I just want more episodes

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over there hopefully we can figure that out eventually anyways bye I