Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
Logical@lemmy.world 1 week agoI never realized you could have NFC and not tap-for-payment support. Is that not how tap-for-payment works?
Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable
Logical@lemmy.world 1 week agoI never realized you could have NFC and not tap-for-payment support. Is that not how tap-for-payment works?
DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 1 week ago
The apps that enable tap-for-payment ask your bank for permission and some security details to activate using cards for NFC.
In North America, banks won’t give that permission/security info to any android app but google pay, and only if the play store verification thing says the OS is fully secure - and google pretends grapheneos doesn’t hit those security metrics.
So yes, NFC is how tap-for-payment works, but unless NA banks implement it themselves, or trust a 3rd party that isn’t google to implement it, grapheneos phones are blocked from using the tap-for-payment functionality.
Logical@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s… Fucking stupid. But it’s to be expected from greedy, overly powerful tech corporations I suppose.