Can you steal $10,000 from a locked iPhone?

By Veritasium

Community Score: 50% | 703.4K views | 3mo

0 community ratings: null thumbs up, null thumbs down

How we hacked MKBHD! Sponsored by Incogni - Use code veritasium at https://incogni.com/veritasium to get an exclusive 60% off. If you’re looking for a molecular modelling kit, try Snatoms, a kit I invented where the atoms snap together magnetically - https://ve42.co/SnatomsV Sign up for the Veritasium newsletter for weekly science updates - https://ve42.co/Newsletter Vote for us at The Webby Awards: - https://ve42.co/bestlongform - https://ve42.co/creatorcollab ▀▀▀ 0:00 Stealing $10,000 From MKBHD 4:04 How The Hack Works 8:29 High Value vs Low Value Transactions 10:18 Tricking The Card Reader 14:20 Transit Mode 15:22 Why does this hack only work with Visa? 17:10 How does RSA encryption work? 20:13 How can you prevent this hack? 21:59 What are Visa doing about it? ▀▀▀ A huge thank you to professors Ioana Boureanu from the University of Surrey and Tom Chothia from the University of Birmingham, for supporting us with the execution and the explanation of the hack. This video would

Tags: veritasium, science, physics, Veritasium, contactless cards, credit card, debit card, card, mastercard, visa, MKBHD, tap to pay, apple pay, apple wallet, phone, iphone, card machine, contactless, hack, credit cards

Communities

  • Education — 0 upvotes, 0 comments

More from Veritasium

  • Rubber used to be useless… — Score: 50%
  • World’s Largest Spiderweb — Score: 50%
  • This Common Substance Was Once Worth Millions — Score: 50%
  • We still don't understand magnetism — Score: 50%
  • How They Prevented The Citicorp Disaster — Score: 50%
  • What Happens If You Keep Slowing Down? — Score: 50%