Uh oh… man, I don’t wanna carry around my credit cards anymore! Â At least not the ones with RFID!
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Here is something that you might not know. Mythbusters had planned to air an episode on how “hackable and trackable†RFID chips are – it never saw the light of day. What happened was this: calls were made to arrange a meeting with someone at Texas Instruments and when the meeting was scheduled to happen a bunch of legal heavies from Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover explained that showing the episode would be a really, really bad idea.
So the episode never happened and Mythbusters won’t be examining any RFID-related myths anytime soon.
I’ve got to admit that I am finding myself curious. It isn’t like the Mythbusters episode was going to show people how to defraud their credit card company – so the card companies’ objections more likely stemmed from other aspects of RFID that they might be uncomfortable with customers finding out about.
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from The UberReview