Comments on: Comment: To RFID or not to RFID, that is the question http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/privacy/comment-to-rfid-or-not-to-rfid-that-is-the-question/ Touring the digital through type Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ron Hatton http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/privacy/comment-to-rfid-or-not-to-rfid-that-is-the-question/comment-page-1/#comment-425 Ron Hatton Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:30:56 +0000 http://www.christopher-parsons.com/blog/archives/304#comment-425 Here here! The truth is, the better the tech, the easier it is for the hackers to steal the information. As we have no way of knowing what data is encoded, no way of controlling who is reading our information and no way of stopping its release, I think its a bad thing. But it is the way it is. I bought an RF-Shield for my cards. The Armadillo Dollar, actually. Nothing else I tested blocked all my cards. After a search for "How to hack RFID", I learned that it wasn't safe to walk the streets! What's this world coming to? Here here!
The truth is, the better the tech, the easier it is for the hackers to steal the information. As we have no way of knowing what data is encoded, no way of controlling who is reading our information and no way of stopping its release, I think its a bad thing.

But it is the way it is.

I bought an RF-Shield for my cards. The Armadillo Dollar, actually. Nothing else I tested blocked all my cards.

After a search for “How to hack RFID”, I learned that it wasn’t safe to walk the streets!

What’s this world coming to?

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