• bruhbeans@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Curve doesn’t work in the USA, to save my fellow subjects a minute clicking through the play store

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
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    3 months ago

    if you’re using Graphene, you’re probably overly privacy sensitive. If you’re […] just use cash instead.

    I feel that’s the advice for the people like me, here. But I appreciate all the detail information.

  • ter_maxima@jlai.lu
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    3 months ago

    Needs Play Services, not interested. I’ll stick with cash for now, it’s less traceable anyway (if you use coins, bank notes are numbered and thus traceable)

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    3 months ago

    In Poland some banks directly use NFC for contactless payments, thanks to that I can pay with my degoogled phone (Murena Fairphone 5).

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 months ago

    There’s precious little detail about what’s going on here, but I assume Curve’s NFC payment system hasn’t enabled Device or Strong verification like Google Wallet.

    I’m honestly ok with that “lower security” as long as there are appropriate safeguards to only paying when the phone is unlocked (which it should never be outside of my control). But that itself seems to assume Curve won’t enable those things in the future, which is uncertain.

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    3 months ago

    Just FYI Curve founder, ceo and part private owner Shachar Bialick currently living in London, was born in Tel Aviv and brought up in the settlement city of Ariel, in the occupied West Bank.

    He also served for three years in the IDF which he thanks for giving him “grit and perseverance, which are clear factors for success in business.”[1]