It sounds from the blog post like this skimming device is reading the electrical signal from the card reader, not reading the mag-stipe directly. So it's unclear how much this would help.
I would think chip and pin should mitigate this kind of card skimming though...
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Why can't we get ATMs with chip slots so that we don't have to present a skimming device with a nice long swipe?
And once more I consider scraping the mag-stripe off my debit card.
It sounds from the blog post like this skimming device is reading the electrical signal from the card reader, not reading the mag-stipe directly. So it's unclear how much this would help.
I would think chip and pin should mitigate this kind of card skimming though...