Comment Re:More fraud? (Score 5, Informative) 382
Spreading FUD...u should all work for BILL!!!
These cards are based on SMARTCARDS and the EMV standards (3DES, PKI, challenge-auth techniques) against which millions of credit and debit cards have been issued. The only difference is that they use an RF interface to provide comms and power the chip.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_14443/
They ARE NOT RFID tags, they do not emit your card number, banks (as other have correctly posted) are smart enough to NOT provide OTHER avenues of fraud.
These cards are based on SMARTCARDS and the EMV standards (3DES, PKI, challenge-auth techniques) against which millions of credit and debit cards have been issued. The only difference is that they use an RF interface to provide comms and power the chip.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_14443/
They ARE NOT RFID tags, they do not emit your card number, banks (as other have correctly posted) are smart enough to NOT provide OTHER avenues of fraud.
