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Why Tapping Your Phone Is Safer Than Tapping Your Card

When you pay with Apple Pay, the shop never receives your real card number. It gets a stand-in number that only works from your device, plus a one-time code. Here is how that works in plain English, what it protects you from, and the one phone call that can undo all of it.

5 October 20264 min read

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