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Old 01-19-2011, 12:31 PM   #1
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Electronic Pickpocketing (might want to take a look)

Hey my mom sent me this email this morning about this news story on electronic pickpocketing

cliffs: guy walks around with computer like device gets near you with the computer and it steals your credit card number etc...

check it out might be good to beaware of this

I dont know if it is new or old news but it is new news to me so i thought i would share

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-electr...726,full.story

credit cards
passports
debit cards


Basically RFID hacking
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Old 01-19-2011, 01:20 PM   #2
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been thinking about grabbing one of these, but i like my wallet...
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Old 01-19-2011, 02:02 PM   #3
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i wonder how much of a real threat this is especially with how desperate people are getting
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Old 01-19-2011, 02:37 PM   #4
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i wonder how much of a real threat this is especially with how desperate people are getting
I can tell you right now that it is basically a non-threat.

That report greatly exaggerated how well/often this works.
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Old 01-19-2011, 03:32 PM   #5
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/8cdd/

been thinking about grabbing one of these, but i like my wallet...
Hmmm.. built-in Faraday cage... so it's EMP proof/resistant. Post apocalyptic credit cards - sweet.
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Old 01-19-2011, 05:41 PM   #6
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I dont know if it is new or old news but it is new news to me so i thought i would share

Basically RFID hacking
Kinda old news yeah, but still a decent topic.

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I can tell you right now that it is basically a non-threat.

That report greatly exaggerated how well/often this works.
Yeah I watched a show about this exact thing on TV. It doesn't work all the time. It would still suck though.
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