Electronic pickpockets target Dartmouth shoppers

Tech | 206836 hits | Dec 16 6:31 am | Posted by: DrCaleb

Electronic pickpocketing has many Nova Scotians looking to protect themselves during the holiday shopping season. "Tap" cards, which have become increasingly widespread, use radio frequency identification (RFID) chips embedded in plastic credit and debit

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by martin14
Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:51 pm
When I got my new cards I used a ball pin hammer and killed the RFID in my cards.

Is that real, or just bs ?
by DrCaleb
Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:54 pm
"martin14" said
When I got my new cards I used a ball pin hammer and killed the RFID in my cards.

Is that real, or just bs ?

It's real. The RFID chips in nearly everything have been targets for years. People will microwave their clothes in order to fry the embedded RFID chips.

Most people just buy a "Faraday Cage" wallet to protect from people sniffing what's in their wallet.

http://www.idstronghold.com/
by martin14
Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:04 pm
Where is the second (RFID) chip located on most cards ?
by Public_Domain
Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:04 pm
by Public_Domain
Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:07 pm
by DrCaleb
Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:22 pm
"martin14" said
Where is the second (RFID) chip located on most cards ?

From what I've read, there is only 1 chip. Whether it has an antenna or not is what makes it contactless.

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