OT: Check out Electronic Pickpocketing Targets Credit and Debit Cards with RFID T

Jean-Pierre A. Radley appl at jpr.com
Mon Dec 27 16:56:12 PST 2010


Bill Campbell propounded (on Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 01:51:52PM -0800):
| On Mon, Dec 27, 2010, Richard Kreiss wrote:
| >FYI
| ...
| >http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-electronic-pickpocketing-story,0,6564458.story
| 
| One can get wallets and purses with faraday shielding that can
| prevent unauthorized access of RFID info.  Here's one for
| passports and a few cards from Amazon.
| 
| http://www.amazon.com/Travelon-Blocking-Passport-Black-Size/dp/B001CZMUM8/ref=lh_ni_t_


If there are have two or more cards so stashed in the wallet that their
magnetic stripes overlay one another, will these RF readers decode one
"layer" at a time, or will the magstripes provide interference for each
other?

-- 
JP


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