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DaveRo BS: Legalities of creating but not using (18) RE: BS: Legalities of creating but not using 27 Nov 22


Irrelevant to the question you ask, but how does your friend know that her card was 'skimmed' at a distance? It's relatively rare for contactless cards, and in the UK at least a never-used contactless card would have to be authorised by a PIN the first time. Authorisation by signature has died out completely.

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I can think of legal uses for devices that read contactless (NFC) devices, which would include cards, at a distance. And something that is legal in one country can be illegal in another - guns for instance,


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