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title: How Do Chips Make Credit Cards More Secure? — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-do-chips-make-credit-cards-more-secure/
date: 2017-12-30
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# How Do Chips Make Credit Cards More Secure?

If you live in the United States, you might have recently gotten a credit card with a microchip on it. But what does this chip do that makes it any different than the magnetic strip on the back of the card?