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Smart Card

A smart card or chip card is a plastic card containing a computer chip and a method of interfacing with an external device. The most common form of smart card is the modern credit or debit card, which contains an EMV chip for securely making payments. These chips are significantly less vulnerable to skimming and cloning than the magnetic stripes they're intended to replace.