Back when mobile payments were still in their infancy—long before Apple Pay became a household name—I found myself captivated by the possibilities of NFC technology. As a grad student at Dalhousie University, I started tinkering with NFC and co-founded a small startup called Alfred NFC, where we experimented
It's been a while since I felt giddy reading a specification. The release of Google's Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) brought back memories of my payments days—waiting eagerly for Visa and Mastercard to publish updates on network tokenization, or when Android introduced Host Card Emulation. Here&
The Confidential Computing Consortium defines confidential computing as “the protection of data in use by performing computation in a hardware-based, attested Trusted Execution Environment.” It’s a powerful idea. Instead of trusting operators or cloud providers, you trust hardware itself to keep your data protected even while it’s being