RFID credit card hacked (time to wrap your wallet in tin foil?)

techradar.com ^ | 3/20/08 | Audley Jarvis

[Hyzenthlay]

Solutions:
RFID-blocking passport billfold
RFID-blocking wallet

Personally, I'd go for one of those if I had anything with RFID in or on it - they're not badly priced either.

[underground]

You wanna opt out of RFID? You better contact your Congressman about the Federal Real ID then... they want to make the “advanced” IDs RFID readable to “facilitate increased western hemisphere travel” (immigration)

[Red in Blue PA]

What’s the world coming to when your wallet needs shielding?

[startswithj]

I called AmEx and they said they don’t offer an alternative. They offered to turn it off remotely, but how do I know really and what’s to stop them from turning it on again.

9/11 1984 aigh!

[braindead0]

It’s easy to disable RFID yourself, and detecting the chip is fairly trivial as well.

http://wvp.diablops.com/component/content/article/67-braindead/37-bad-paypass-bad.html