smart card
noun
: a small plastic card that has a built-in microprocessor to store and process data and records
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Wood and bamboo smart card room keys are carbon neutral and biodegradable, and are part of a broader effort across all the brands to ultimately remove all single-use plastic.
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Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Steve Weisman, a law and taxation lecturer at Bentley University, said the United States is one of the few countries that continue to use magnetic stripe cards, noting much of the world uses newer EMV smart cards that have computer chips with encrypted data.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
Due to the configuration of the underlying technology, though, removing seamless SSO would mean users could not access the cloud through their smart cards.
—Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 13 June 2024
The smart cards inserted into the readers used a code library that had yet to be patched against the Minerva attack.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 June 2023
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Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
Steve Weisman, a law and taxation lecturer at Bentley University, said the United States is one of the few countries that continue to use magnetic stripe cards, noting much of the world uses newer EMV smart cards that have computer chips with encrypted data.
—Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2024
Due to the configuration of the underlying technology, though, removing seamless SSO would mean users could not access the cloud through their smart cards.
—Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 13 June 2024
The smart cards inserted into the readers used a code library that had yet to be patched against the Minerva attack.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 13 June 2023
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“Smart card.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smart%20card. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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