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Booger says

The tap one I use my phone. They can't get the card number, it's encrypted. They need to hold me at phone point to ever use my phone tap, which would likely be an armed robbery. The phone has to be open. The swiper scanners are much easier for fraud. I also get an immediate push notification IF I somehow got scammed and would start a dispute in under a minute and it goes away.

The quoted video would get useless scrambled garbage that they'd have to figure out how to unencoded on the tap scanner. Likely not happening. Waiting for it, but what about restaurants? Even sit down ones usually take it. When you pay cash at those places who is to say the server is not comping some food and taking your cash that the owner doesn't get?

There's no safe way to pay, but there are safer ways. I think the phone tap is the safest because it requires your own ID or code to work.

https://appfrontier.com/blog/how-contactless-payments-work-nfc-technology-explained

Sure, electronic payments help stop robberies, but make everyone far more subject to arbitrary government control.

The government gets:

1. to know what you bought
2. to know where you are right now, and send police to your location
3. the ability to stop your purchase for political reasons

It's creates an extreme danger of absolute technocratic control, something much worse than the threat of robbery.

The left will use this power to suppress dissent.

And anyway, electronic payments actually facilitate certain kinds of robbery, as the video shows.

Booger says

Lol, it was almost certainly the store owners themselves who installed the skimmer.