Posted on 11/25/2010 9:32:27 AM PST by Evil Slayer
St. Petersburg, Florida - If you had any doubt that someone could steal your credit card numbers by simply walking past you, a few minutes with Walt Augustinowicz will probably chance your mind.
"Wow that is crazy. It kind of makes me nervous," said Reina Monsour after watching one of Augustinowicz's demonstrations.
"Technology is getting scarier and scarier," added Ivan Marik after watching another demonstration.
By simply using a credit card scanner attached to a battery pack, Augustinowicz shows how easy it is to grab sensitive information from an unsuspecting person.
(Excerpt) Read more at wtsp.com ...
I know this will sound stupid but would tin foil work?
>> ... would tin foil work?
Only if fashioned into a hat ;o)
How about a duct tape wallet ?
>>The aluminum foil did, however, help with preventing the card from transmitting. Without the aluminum foil, my card was detected by the reader at a distance of about a foot and a half. With the aluminum foil, the card was not detected until it was about two inches away.<<
http://www.omniscienceisbliss.org/rfid.html
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So if you are in a store and someone has one of these you can see them with it make them open it and if it is a scanner beat the crap out of them and shove it where the sun don't shine .. these should be illegal to have no one needs them unless you are a POS thief
As ‘seen on TV’ - a recent episode of “NCIS” used a device like this in the opening - a woman was gabbing CC numbers, burning a new one and headed out shopping....
So - if it is on TV - it must be really real, right?
I assume youre talking about RFID chips embedded in credit cards. That being the case, does anyone know which credit card companies are using the RFID chips? I would also think that if anyone had their RFID card compromised they would have a good case to be relieved of all responsibility if not advised of the chip.
"Probably 98% of the people have no idea that these (RFID) cards are in circulation and there is 100-million of them already out there now and in the next 2 years every single card is going to have it," Augustinowicz said.
So that being said, your credit card probably has one. If not, they are saying ALL will have one within the next 2 years. And, yes, the RFID chips are not just in credit cards. They have them in Debit cards and any cards used for ID like drivers license cards, passport cards and even in clothing, etc at department stores. The Orson Welles Big Brother age is here already.
My wife is a big fan of NCIS, and she had a hard time understanding this potential problem.
I will be showing her this article.
I had two cell phones cloned over a decade ago, that were cloned while we were driving and the phones were on but not being used.
Both times it happened at a busy entrance to an interstate.
I had noticed a ubitious white van parked off the side of the road both times, and I notified the cell phone provider after the second event. I never saw the van again.
The numbers were apparently sold to drug dealers and by the time we got home (in about 30 minutes), the provider had discontinued the service on one of the phones. Apparently some governmental agency wanted the phone to work for a couple of days. The guys were calling international providers, and the costs were tremendous. We didn’t have to pay.
The phone was the famous Motorola Flip Phone. Indestructible basically, but very cloneable.
RFID chips in credit cards is a really bad idea. It’s a stupid answer to a non-existant problem.
I looked through all my wallet cards and couldn’t see anything suggesting that they had an RFID. Is there any way to tell? Anyone?
It’s a way to track the populace by computer. I am confident that’s what is happening. That data most certainly would have a retail price.
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