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

haroldef at sbcglobal.net haroldef at sbcglobal.net
Mon Dec 27 17:55:44 PST 2010


On 12/27/2010 6:56 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> 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?
>

Hi,

JP has a birth day coming up, as do I.  Happy Birthday JP.  I wish you 
long years of a Happy Life.

I met JP at a Tandy meeting in Las Vegas in the 80s.  In fact we sat 
besides each other at a dinner where we had bar-b-q, and I ended up 
having sauce on my tie.

Happy New Year

Harold




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