No new news there. To really abuse the card as shown, somebody needs
both the reader and the cloner. Sure it could happen. But why does
everybody worry about things like sending their credit card numbers
over the Internet or electronic cloning, when they're prefectly
willing to give their credit card to a waiter who disappears with it
temporarily and does God knows what while he's got it? Some waiters
have been found to have credit-card readers, the simple kind that read
the magnetic stripe, of their own. Some people have hacked merchants'
computers and intercepted the data from ordinary magnetic-stripe
credit-card readers. There are plenty of ways to get credit card
numbers. But if you're really worried about it, you could take the
suggestion to wrap your card in aluminum foil--not a hassle if you're
like me and hardly ever use it except for mail orders or very rare
large purchases like a set of tires.
Anyway, if you check your statement every month (you _do_, don't
you?), you can get fraudulent charges removed easily.
The good news it that the technology is very short range.
I have a weird friend who has injected an RFID chip into his hand. It
unlocks his smart phone; some Android phones have RFID chip readers in
them. They're everywhere....
What I'd be interested to hear is how one can kill an RFID chip. Would
a few seconds in a microwave do it, for example? At some point Texas
drivers licenses will have RFID chips in them--maybe some already do.
If somebody wants to see my drivers license, I might not be in the
mood to be very helpful, and it would be nice if he couldn't just read
the info automatically. I've tried to demagnetize the stripe, but I
have no way to know whether that's been successful. -- Mixon
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