Hacker News Reader

I do have to say that if you're interested in privacy, tap to pay or even a credit card is the opposite of that. Cash would be the way to go for private transactions.

View on HN

Threat modelling, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, etc. What are you defending, and from who? You have to consider that.

For real though just bring your actual card instead of trying to load it onto your phone. Why give Apple and Google your card's private key?

Because it's graphine and the entire point is that google is not involved in any transaction between you and your banking app.

The transaction isn't between you and your banking app. It's between your bank and a load of proprietary Google shitware that Google cajoled Visa and MasterCard into accepting as a replacement for an actual card.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com