Comments on: Think you’re too observant to have your card skimmed? http://bastardsheep.com/2009/10/16/think-youre-too-observant-to-have-your-card-skimmed/ Musings of a woolly dolphin. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:21:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Contactless http://bastardsheep.com/2009/10/16/think-youre-too-observant-to-have-your-card-skimmed/#comment-1255 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 01:14:30 +0000 http://bastardsheep.com/?p=148#comment-1255 Raising awareness about this issue is also something that I’ve been trying to do at my blog (http://www.contactless.wordpress.com), although it’s been mainly in the area of how to keep one’s identity safe from unauthorised access by criminals, as we ‘roll-out’ contactless RFID payment solutions. Maybe it’s not a widespread issue at this point in time, although I’m of a view that RFID enabled hotel door-entry access passes, could be targeted in the months to come, as elsewhere this technology has been ‘hacked’, ‘skimmed’ or ‘cloned’ by unscrupulous individuals.

There are also some relevant (PDF download) case studies at http://www.trackandshield.wordpress.com which I’m sure you’d be welcome to draw attention to, or even paste into your blog with permission from the authors.

Hope this of relevance to you, and once again thanks for raising awareness about personal safety; it’s a really important issue.

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