We just received replacement credit cards yesterday with the "Blink" RFID chips in them. My understanding of RFID is that they are a passive transceiver with the transmitter activated by an RF field
The only one of those we have is a store card. I assume -- but of course I could be wrong -- that it will respond only when it receives an "Are you there?" signal that is specific to that particular
This is a Visa card. Scary to think what the hackers will do with these things. We had them cancel the new card - will stick with the old one - we did not request the "Blink" version. We keep our wir
FWIW, check out item 11 on the Chase website: http://www.chaseblink.com/faq_cc.asp They say the card must be placed within one inch of the reader, and oriented correctly. I'm not promoting Blink, ju
I think that because of "health" issues they run real low power on their activator - doesn't prevent others from running more. -- Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E FS/Swap/Wanted: http://kd4e.com/swapn.html Fr
Being in the CS field, this does not jive with most information I have. That's not to say their cards are not different, as I don't have information on which specific system they are using. The "typi
Just to clarify, I was not supporting the concern, merely noting that it was an issue raised when RFID was being debated and that those with influence may have forced a "least power necessary" rule a