54: Stop Rubbing Your Reader Against My Butt

The Apple Watch promises to make Apple Pay even easier and safer than traditional credit card transactions. We look at the history of Credit Card data transactions and consider the practicalities. Of course.
With Vic Hudson and John Chidgey.

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