Arthur BesseA to

Technology · 2 years ago

Since May 24th people have been unable to pay by card in many major German retailers, apparently due to a difficult-to-update expired certificate in a popular EOL'd payment terminal (Verifone H5000)

www.thelocal.de

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Since May 24th people have been unable to pay by card in many major German retailers, apparently due to a difficult-to-update expired certificate in a popular EOL'd payment terminal (Verifone H5000)

www.thelocal.de

Arthur BesseA to

Technology · 2 years ago

Why are card payments getting rejected in Germany?

www.thelocal.de

People are currently unable to pay by card in a number of major German retailers. Here's what's going on.

the article doesn’t mention that an expired certificate is the cause, but that is credibly claimed on twitter here: https://nitter.net/jwildeboer/status/1530227390286290944

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this is why you never swallow all that bs propaganda about abolishing cash

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