> ah so your the one fumbling with a credit card and holding every one up at the bar when I want to get a round in.
Here in Canada I just tap my card on the machine and walk away - much, much faster than trying to count out the right amount of cash, then waiting for change, etc.
> and DONT! get me started on NFC credit cards that can be debited with NO interactinon
Let me guess, you also didn't like when it was possible to make CC payments over the phone with no signature (!)
And you also didn't like when it was possible to make CC payments over the web with no signature AND no actual human (!!!!!!)
It's a risk, but you can fix it on the backend, away from the end-user. If they were bitcoins then sure you need interaction for NFC. But credit cards are a closed system on the merchant side, any new identity pulling only NFC traffic would be very suspicious. NFC would always be an expected proportion of overall captures. So it's simple to defend against this attack without killing the feature.
Here in Canada I just tap my card on the machine and walk away - much, much faster than trying to count out the right amount of cash, then waiting for change, etc.
> and DONT! get me started on NFC credit cards that can be debited with NO interactinon
Let me guess, you also didn't like when it was possible to make CC payments over the phone with no signature (!)
And you also didn't like when it was possible to make CC payments over the web with no signature AND no actual human (!!!!!!)
Things progress, get with the program.