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So as an alternative to one of those wallets that blocks I thought why not just put copper foil tape over the "chip" (topside and underside) or as an alternative take a razor knife and destroy the chip. Thoughts requested from someone that already succeeded.
ET
Edits: 11/19/15Follow Ups:
My chipped credit card (less than two months old) that I carry in a signal blocker wallet was hacked faster than any other credit card I've owned. I just got a call from my CC company yesterday to ask about $2500 worth of charges that were not mine. Jeez...
And your info is still vulnerable that way. Plus, many/most stores don't have chip readers yet.
Jack
I had to laugh. WM in Canada recently upgraded their CC machines. They don't do chipped cards the way every other store/kiosk in Canada (and the rest of the developed world) has for years. So basically they're at 2000 now, their previous machine were 90s-style clunky. I do understand the infrastructure required in the U.S. would be massively more expensive than anywhere else.These cards also have a unique transaction code that only the card and the "data receiver" know about, so they're much harder to hack than unchipped cards. However you can make *small* purchases with them only up to a certain *total* amount ($100, $200 is common), then you have to enter a PIN to "reset" the amount. You can't buy $2500 of stuff just by waving them. Banks aren't that dumb.
Edits: 11/20/15
If you can only charge $100 or so without resetting the PIN, how did Rockethead end up with $2500 worth of unauthorized purchases?
You're right, I made a mistake: it's only for a *debit* RFID card that you reset the running total by entering your PIN.
For a RFID credit card you have to enter a PIN if it's over a set amount, but if your purchases are under this amount (usually it's $100 here), you can keep waving away until you hit the credit limit or are otherwise stopped.
My bank just issued RFID credit and debit cards. Guess I'll have to learn the ins and outs of using them. So far nowhere I've gone in my home town has had the RFID scanner.
Try it in the MicroWave:
Too much is never enough
It won't work if the chip doesn't work.
But my new cards are using the new technology, EMV which requires the card to be placed in the machine during the transaction. The chip gives a unique transaction CVV each time that can't be reused.
-Rod
OK, EMV that's what I have. I'll leave it alone. Thanks Rod.ET
Edits: 11/19/15
Perhaps foil over pants, as well as head?
8^)
By next year at this time, if marketing / manufacturing plans go well, I'll be selling
'Faraday Pants' which will block ALL RF Intrusions as well as much radiation. Weighing only about 12lb in prototype form (34x32) they will also provide a little extra exercise.
A win-win, any way you slice it.
Too much is never enough
Why?
Prevent scanners from xray'ing your body?
J/K...
8^)
Whatever. Are you not aware of scanners that capture RF ID cards?
Yes, it was a joke. A bad one, at that...
8^)
Happens to the best of us,see Rocketheads reply too.
ET
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