<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by DisgruntledGoat:
There's a severe lack of tech specs on this. It sounds like it's RFID in a way. The first thing I would do is work at getting a device is a trying to boost the range on it and just intercept credit card numbers. </font>
I was thinking the same thing the other day.
Lots of companies use these "proximity cards" for building security, and now credit card companies are doing the same thing.
It doesn't seem like it would be too difficult for someone who knows what they're doing to set up a device somewhere and get the information out of people's wallets as they walk by.
When I was purchasing one of these systems for my company, extended range readers could read cards that were several feet away.
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