This will make you wanna give up credit cards

[Tx Redneck]

http://www.wreg.com/videobeta/8ba6f8fc-90a2-4711-90ea-1884ec348310/News/Electronic-Pickpocket

[LS1Goat]

As if we already didn't have a big enough problem with Identity Theft in this country. That's ridiculous.

[71chevellejohn]

I wouldn't give up my card over that... I'll look into the sleeve that shields it though.

[Forever_frost]

you can make a sleeve out of aluminum foil

[The King]

you can make a sleeve out of aluminum foil

Or a hat

[78X]

cliffs for phone browsers?

[71chevellejohn]

cliffs for phone browsers?

Guy shows that the new credit cards with the "blink" RFID tag can be read by a battery powered scanner. Goes around the streets of a city scanning people's wallets and showing them their CC info without pulling the card out.

[78X]

damn!

[03mustangdude]

this is old news like months if not years ago you can do it with certain android phones now too from what i've heard.

[SMKR]

interesting.

[Hobie]

Get one of these.

http://www.flipsidewallet.com/

Thieves have readers that work much better than what was shown in the video. The better ones will grab numbers from ~30ft away.

[Baba Ganoush]

How long til you can zap someone's toll tag in their windshield and grab the data/account info off of it? I bet someone has been working on this.....

[UserX]

Get one of these.

http://www.flipsidewallet.com/

Thieves have readers that work much better than what was shown in the video. The better ones will grab numbers from ~30ft away.

Those are pretty slick.

[SSMAN]

Good post. Amazing the shit they come up with.

[Josh.0]

psshhhh this has been around for over a year, finally its getting some coverage