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tadfisher 5 hours ago

Even with the sandboxed Play Store, Google Pay disables NFC payments as it requires hardware attestation against Google's root keys.

hparadiz 5 hours ago | parent [-]

No inherent reason all that stuff can't work on an open platform. It works just fine on my Linux box with yubikeys, fido2, and smart cards. Gcloud even let's you authenticate with them only to put a medium lived token in plaintext into a sqlite file on disk.

tadfisher 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No inherent reason, just Visa/Mastercard requirements around host card emulation for payment cards.

hparadiz 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Sounds like a duopoly that needs to be broken up.