Los Angeles TV station warns on stealing account numbers from RFID enabled contactless credit cards

This TV interview shows how easy it is to have your credit card number stolen from your purse or wallet without even touching it. New PayPass ™,Visa Wave (r), Amex Express Pay (r), and Discover zip(r) cards contain radio frequency identification – RFID – chips – that can broadcast your personal information to a remote reader. This is generally called skimming. The Identity Stronghold Secure Sleeves they show protect you from having your information stolen this way. You can buy them at www.idstronghold.com
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Brian from PA: Truckers Forced to Go Through A Broker and RFID to Track you Down!

RFID Tags in New US Notes Explode When You Try to Microwave Them ( Article was written around 2004 or 2005 } Adapted from a letter sent to Henry Makow Ph.D. Want to share an event with you, that we experienced this evening.. Dave had over 00 dollars in his back pocket (in his wallet). New twenties were the lion share of the bills in his wallet. We walked into a truck stop/travel plaza and they have those new electronic monitors that are supposed to say if you are stealing something. But through every monitor, Dave set it off. He did not have anything to purchase in his hands or pockets. After numerous times of setting off these monitors, a person approached Dave with a ‘wand’ to swipe why he was setting off the monitors. Believe it or not, it was his ‘wallet’. That is according to the minimum wage employees working at the truck stop! We then walked across the street to a store and purchased aluminum foil. We then wrapped our cash in foil and went thru the same monitors. No monitor went off. We could have left it at that, but we have also paid attention to the European Union and the ‘rfid’ tracking devices placed in their money, and the blatant bragging of Walmart and many corporations of using ‘rfid’ electronics on every marketable item by the year 2005. Dave and I have brainstormed the fact that most items can be ‘microwaved’ to fry the ‘rfid’ chip, thus elimination of tracking by our government. So we chose to ‘microwave’ our cash, over 00 in twenties in a stack …
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Uptown Cycles RFID Solution From UPM, Freedom Shopping, Zebra

Uptown Cycles, an independent retailer of high performance cycling equipment, has deployed an RFID-enabled inventory management system from UPM Raflatac, Freedom Shopping and Zebra Technologies at its store in Charlotte, North Carolina. The FLiP system, designed by Freedom Shopping, integrates seamlessly into Uptown Cycles POS system, enabling the merchant to harness the power of item-level RFID tagging for electronic article surveillance (EAS) in order to increase inventory accuracy, reduce out-of-stocks, enhance customer experience and improve store security. Uptown Cycles deployed the FLiP system in one week with no disruption to its normal operating processes. Using Freedom Shoppings IntelliSuite Developers Tools, merchants and their integration partners can integrate RFID into existing POS systems quickly and easily, for as little as 00 per software license per store. The tools leverage stores existing item masters and inventory database, eliminating the potential for human error and process disruption due to redundant data, while enabling retailers of all sizes to benefit from RFIDs ability to drive critical process improvements. The FLiP system includes fixed and handheld RFID scanners, a software bridge that syncs the RFID tag database with the POS system, a self-service payment kiosk and an RFID-powered intelligent EAS system. To tag existing inventory or receive new shipments, employees use RFID handhelds to scan product bar codes; the system identifies goods …
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Putting the FUN into RFID from Facebook and Coca-Cola

These are the first steps to warm the public to RFID Chips. Publicis E-dologic figured out a way to embed user data in IDF bracelets, and thus allow people to “Like” real world objects, places and events spreading the word about it on their facebook accounts. They implemented these facebook-bracelets at the Coca Cola Village, a watersport, sunbathing, gameplaying amusement park activity-thing for teenagers. When the guests arrive, they are given a ‏ bracelet ID which transmits an RFID signal, which they program with their facebook login. They can then “like” activities and places in the real village, and their actions show up on facebook. Teenagers are driven by vanity like everyone else, so there was a photographer present as well, if you wanted to tag yourself in any given image all you had to do was wave your ID bracelet to the photographer. This will ultimately lead to the public getting permanent chips. Privacy advocates have protested the VeriChip, warning of potential abuse and denouncing these types of RFID devices as “spychips,” and that use by governments could allow the tracking of citizens, increasing any moves towards a police state. In addition, privacy advocates state that the information contained in this chip could easily be stolen, so that storing anything private in it would be to risk identity theft. According to Wired News online, and the Associated Press, there have been research articles over the last ten years that found a connection between the …
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RFID: Tracking Everything Part 1 With Katherine Albrecht

How to remove the RFID chip from an Oyster card

Here’s how to remove the RFID chip and antenna from a London Oyster travelcard. You can then put it in anything you want. UPDATE! See my new video for details on how to do this trick on newer Oyster cards. www.youtube.com More cool science at: sciencepunk.com