Hooray, my credit/debit card now has RFID!
- June 4th, 2008
- 5 Comments
Guess who’s credit/debit card now has RFID?
Yup, apparently I used my old card at a highly insecure location within the past few days, so much so that Citibank had to rush me a new card. And lucky me, this one has RFID, only MasterCard calls it PayPass.
I do have the option of disabling the RFID chip by calling the bank, and I’m pretty sure I’ll be doing that as soon as this post goes up. The last thing I need is some smarter-than-me 13-year-old using a “steal Deleon’s credit card information” ray on me.
not algore (Who am I?)
6 months ago
just wrap the card in foil.
~D
Biff (Who am I?)
6 months ago
And how does one verify an rfid chip has been disabled? Because the 18 year old ditz on the phone said so?
Jon (Who am I?)
6 months ago
Now you know what to do when those mysterious black trucks with a huge dish on their roofs drive down your neighborhood… run for the tin foil!
Jon
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yoshi (Who am I?)
6 months ago
There are good and bad ways to implement RFID. The US government and toll booth companies usually go the ‘bad’ route.
Saying that - your liability is limited. As long as its a credit card (you say credit/debit - there is no such thing) you liability is limited. The banks have an incentive to do this right since they are on the hook for almost all fraudulent charges. My advice to you is to spend 5 seconds looking up what your liability is instead of making inaccurate snarky comments.
(disclaimer: I am a it security consultant for very large banks)
NS (Who am I?)
5 months ago
I much prefer the key tag version Citi offers/ed on Credit and Debit products in the US. If you have to take out your card to use the Paypass/contactless you might as well swipe it anyways! I prefer to have my keys at hand–better yet put it in cellphones like Citi did in thier ‘NYC Mobile Trial’ in 2007.