agreed, if they try to send me one of these they’ll be getting it right back. I hope they offer the option of an rfid free card.

Well I recently turned 18 and I’m looking for a credit card. Good to know MC is doing this, so I don’t get buggered in the end. :-P

my college uses a “checkpoint” rfid system to get in and out of dorms. I wonder if I could do something fun…

im epoxying the foil to my wallet right now

i think we should be more worried about the fact that steve is massaging 802.11x hardware…

Heh, woohoo, a new kind of card for the lazy-assed american that’s too fat and weak to swipe their own fucking card. I’ll bet you card swiping is the primary cause of cancer in old people. I say we just id-theft anyone who’s so lazy they need a swipeless card.

The subway system here has RFID passes. I’ve been wanting to tinker with the card for a while…it’d be fun if I could write money to it.

correction: there have been plenty.. just look at the past few weeks.

on a more hack-a-day note, I’m planning on picking up a new cellphone sometime soon. are there any suggestions on what I should get to hack the most?

At the movie theater where I work, we’ve had the readers for about six months or so. Preemptive strike, I guess.

digitally sick, read back a few (ok maybe something like 5) pages back, we’ve already hacked Exxon speedpasses, how long do you think it will be before this is hacked? and would you really trust me with your credit card?

the RFID tags use (you guessed it) radio frequency to send info, this means that the scanner picks up the info *over the air* (just like wi-fi, and you know how hard that is to crack!) at least with traditional credit cards there isn’t any over the air signals, so someone will pretty much have to physically have your card to do damage. imagine if they could just have a scanner twenty feet away hidden inside of a backpack (and i give it two weeks before some geek figures out a way to record your rfid info to an ipod) then rebroadcast it with a walkie talkie. sound fun?

ok, i’ll admit that it might be more than a walkie talkie, but something that broadcasts radio signals can broadcast… radio signals…

p.s. imagine if someone recorded your info on an ipod with a rfid scanner, and broadcasted it with one of those microphones that can be played on stereos set to a specific radio station hooked up to the headphone jack. think it could work? someone needs to teach digitallysick a lesson

American Express just sent me an RFID-looking card too. (American Express “Blue” is the AmEx variant aimed at dot-com-era geeks: lots of cool features, most of which never materialize. My last card from them had a ISO7816-type contact pattern on it, which would supposedly be useful for something or other. Never did find out what.) It’s got an embedded chip and spiral antenna and some vague marketing wordage about how easy it’ll be for me to pay for stuff with it. If, that is, I ever use it for something.

Hmmm, here we go: http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/articleview/1297/1/11/

The article mentions that “American Express, Visa and MasterCard are all offering RFID-based contactless payment options”. They’re the 13.56-MHz style card. No info on whether it’s a cryptographically strong exchange (ha!) or just the usual “broadcast your card number to all listeners” kind of thing.

Um, is there a way to avoid having my comment forced to all lower-case?

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