Just because a higher level of security exists doesn’t completely invalidate the lower levels.
That, and the physical card your phone uses for funding tap-to-pay is still vulnerable to that same attack, and not everywhere supports tap, and tap only works if you have a functioning device. Not carrying a backup form of payment is asinine.
“trading convenience for security” was what my comment responded to. Using your phone to pay is not compromising security in any way, quite the contrary actually, and I explained why.
In France, everybody (barring most gas stations, even if I have seen some with tap-to-pay nowadays) can take tap-to-pay, even the remote mountain refuges I have been hiking to. You can even pay tolls and parking with it now.
And somebody even more old-school than you would think you’re a fool not taking cash or checks with you as a backup for your card. I’ve been paying with my phone for years without any problem, I just take my card when I need to refuel my car or traveling, and most of the time I have to check my card pin code anyway on my phone because I never use it.
And if my phone is off for some reason, well I have my watch.
You know fair enough on the counter point to my post. I didn’t specify this initially but what I was actually thinking is how one would stick with stock android out of convenience (needing tap pay, banking apps, etc) instead of switching to graphene and such.
Just because a higher level of security exists doesn’t completely invalidate the lower levels.
That, and the physical card your phone uses for funding tap-to-pay is still vulnerable to that same attack, and not everywhere supports tap, and tap only works if you have a functioning device. Not carrying a backup form of payment is asinine.
“trading convenience for security” was what my comment responded to. Using your phone to pay is not compromising security in any way, quite the contrary actually, and I explained why.
In France, everybody (barring most gas stations, even if I have seen some with tap-to-pay nowadays) can take tap-to-pay, even the remote mountain refuges I have been hiking to. You can even pay tolls and parking with it now.
And somebody even more old-school than you would think you’re a fool not taking cash or checks with you as a backup for your card. I’ve been paying with my phone for years without any problem, I just take my card when I need to refuel my car or traveling, and most of the time I have to check my card pin code anyway on my phone because I never use it.
And if my phone is off for some reason, well I have my watch.
You know fair enough on the counter point to my post. I didn’t specify this initially but what I was actually thinking is how one would stick with stock android out of convenience (needing tap pay, banking apps, etc) instead of switching to graphene and such.