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Credit card processing existed before widespread telecommunications infrastructure. Maybe we should require payment cards to have raised numbers like they used to so the old carbon copy machines continue to work.

Credit cards and payment networks have always explicitly supported "Offline" processing like that.

The kind of fraud that system enables isn't really common.




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