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Visa will start to make wireless smart cards to make payments 'easier'. Okay, that's all well and good but what happens when someone sniffs my RFID and replicates it and starts to make some nasty purchases.
This also doesn't make too much sense in retail stores anyway, most of them ask for ID (most of them). How is it making your life easier if you still need to think about privacy and security as well!?
I know I won't be getting one soon.
Visa will start to make wireless smart cards to make payments 'easier'. Okay, that's all well and good but what happens when someone sniffs my RFID and replicates it and starts to make some nasty purchases.
This also doesn't make too much sense in retail stores anyway, most of them ask for ID (most of them). How is it making your life easier if you still need to think about privacy and security as well!?
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Philips Semiconductors, which manufactures a wide range of chips that go into smart cards, believes that wireless smart cards have great potential because of their low cost and convenience. Philips' range of RFID tags mark the identity of an object and use wireless to broadcast information such as its location.
I know I won't be getting one soon.