The Heir/Tropical Soulvangelical/TSV recommends -against- big tech methods of payment such as tap-to-pay if even if it's -solely because- there was that one "former intel officer" TSV heard about on audio Bloomberg 8.45am who recommended in favor of it because of these "skimming" reports. It sounds to TSV as a clear form of guerilla advertising and a fake PSA to boot, since big tech's been down in the equity markets and they've had to lay off people. What TSV recommends instead if you really want to keep safe, use the chip on your chip card, cover the keypad while you're typing in your PIN, use your common sense, or just outright use cash. TSV has done any or all of these things and he's never had trouble. Using one of these tech fad methods of payment he deems as taking privilege of fear, uncertainty and doubt for big tech to try to force cash payments into obsolesence, and hence is the -worst- thing you can do. What's going to happen when tap-to-pay causes a Russian Hacker to get your PIN and your credit card number because the pridefulness of big tech makes it so they don't focus so much on security? This TSV asks also because it's the logical fallacy of if-not-one-then-the-other. If someone could -ever- get hacked using something else other than tap-to-pay, does anyone deserve to believe that tap-to-pay is your way -not- to get hacked? That's TSV's point, and he had hoped that Bloomberg at least would go to a differing point of view on the subject for the sake of equal time. After the media's illusion as the Fourth Estate broke over the Biden Documents issue, it got broken again over the big tech payment method issue. Luckily TSV didn't hear this report on 1010-wins or cbs-880, so they might have kept this rumor report below the fold for lack of actual substantiation.