stackyFACTSThe secure EMV metallic chip sitting on your current bank card was actually pioneered in France during the mid-1980s. Originally deployed to combat rampant toll phone fraud, the technology proved so unbreakable that it slowly forced the entire global financial industry to abandon highly vulnerable magnetic stripes.
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