Hi Tc,

What I am saying is that RFID combined with Credit Cards requires such a mechanism, and so do Passports as well so you have control over when it will accept a scan.

I brought this up with one of our banks a couple of years ago when they were looking at introducing this, their reply was "That would never happen", just goes to show you, banks don't understand security.

>Neil, as demonstrated and verified by the interviews, that just isn't so. There is no "Accept Scan" button on credit cards. The appear to be the ones that have the ability to just hold your credit card over the swipe (have you seen those?). We have those here. I don't think any of my cards have that though (yet). We have swipe machines where with both the swipe and the sensor (the sensor usually sits on top) but only some cards work with it (and they have to be created since 2006) It's called something like "pass and go" or "no swipe" something on the machines:
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>Here's one example:
>http://usa.visa.com/personal/cards/paywave/micro_tag.html
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>>The use of RFID in Credit Cards requires a Physical "Accept Scan" button on the card so that you control the scanning.
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>>>For about an hour he patrolled Beale Street, looking for RFID chips to read, and credit card information to steal.
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>>>"There you go," said Augustinowicz scanning one willing participant's wallet. "It's a MasterCard," he explained looking at the man's credit card number and expiration date pop up on the screen.
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>>>Even scarier, Augustinowicz says bad guys could work a crowd, stealing numbers and then e-mail them anywhere in the world.
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>>>"After a game here I could literally pull couple thousand cards," Augustinowicz explained to a group of women visiting from Chicago.
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>>>Using just an off-the-shelf card reader, Augustinowicz explained he could swipe credit card numbers, expiration dates, and in some cases, even people's names.
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>>>It's enough, Augustinowicz says, to do damage.
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>>>"We've done it," he insisted. "We've picked up the phone, called 800 numbers, ordered stuff under a fake name, shipped it to a foreclosed home and the product comes in the mail."
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