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Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable (grapheneos.social)

submitted 6 months ago by XLE@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

NFC is just the technology that tap for payment uses, but there are other use cases for it.

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[–] Logical@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

I'm aware of that, but I wasn't aware of the much more stringent (non-technical) requirements for tap to pay

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 2 points 6 months ago

Fair enough. I misinterpreted your comment.

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