On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:30:46 -0000, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah <[email protected]> wrote: > Thousands of travelers and consumers can fall victim to electronic > pickpocketing > and never even know it because they carry new credit cards and U.S. > passports. > Credit card issuers, along with the U.S. State Department, have begun > installing > radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in credit cards and > passports because > the technology holds more data than magnetic stripes and can be read > quicker.
The UK got this is passports a few years ago, and one of my credit cards now has RFID on it. I went the low tech way to stop this and got a portable farraday cage wallet: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/8cdd/ Both the passport and credit card have a wireless symbol on it (though they're both different). I still don't trust them :-) dave _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
