Rusty Bowtie
General Category => General Discussion - Intros => Topic started by: sammons on December 06, 2014, 11:59:34 AM
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My credit card company just sent me my new credit card yesterday. It's got that damn RFID chip, big quotations
"new wave" in the introduction card. I called them requesting a new card without the chip, "all our new cards are issued with them".
I got on the interweb to see about disabling them. Found these resopnses, beat it with a hammer, microwave them, drill or stab it, aluminium foil around them, faraday wallet. A freind told me he knew a guy that stabbed it out and was twice turned down at check out for a mutilated/altered card.
Aluminium foil stuffing, (tried, not pretty) so I decided to make two credit card sized sheetmetal cards to put on both sides of my card slots in the wallet.
Question- is it even worth screwing with/ does it work? I just have one, for fuel and ordering parts, travel emergency.
Did more research, just got out the BFH, beat the crap out of the chip. Just won't worry about it :-\
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Another way the government can track you >:( Uncle Sam is watching you and everybody else, soon we will not have a currency it will be all on a card with a RFID chip so they can monitor you. One Government and one currency it's coming >:(
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Have any contacts in a PC repair shop with a "degaussing unit". They use the degaussers to wipe out hard drives, recording tapes etc. You may remember the degausser button on the old PC monitors. Not sure if it would work but worth a try?
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What about attaching a rare earth magnet to it :-\
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I would be afraid degaussing or other magnetic attempts would mess up the strip on the back. I use that part at the pumps. I guess these days it doesn't mater much, hackers will always find away and the government already knows all :-\
I think the BFH has disabled it now.
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They sure know how to make things tough. Every time they make something better, they make it worse. I am down to one credit card that I only use for emergencies.