• HubertManne
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    114 months ago

    Can’t remember which one but credit cards were offline for a time with something and places that still had the carbon paper roller things stashed away took them out and used them. They should keep those things around.

    • @[email protected]
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      74 months ago

      Serious privacy issues around copying cards. That means the store has to retain a physical copy of the full embossed card number.

      There were boxes full of them in the backroom.

    • Kernal64
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      4 months ago

      My friends and I used to call those machines ker-chunkers. 😂

      • @pirat
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        24 months ago

        I’ve heard it mentioned as a “fly swatter” in my mother’s tongue.

    • @AgentGrimstone
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      44 months ago

      Do people still have embossed credit cards? All mine are flat now.

      • HubertManne
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        34 months ago

        good point. I think embossing went away about when wireless became ubiquitous with it. So they would need to be doing that again.

        • @[email protected]
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          My card is embossed. Then again it’s also from a community credit union in southeast Michigan. Lol.

    • Possibly linux
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      34 months ago

      That’s against the rules for PCI compliance

      Under no circumstances should you copy a card

      • HubertManne
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        14 months ago

        are they not allowed now. The thing im thinking about was definately post 2000 but maybe not 20teens

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      Not sure how much good that’ll be… A lot of banks are giving out cards where the numbers are only printed, I haven’t had one with raised numbers in years.