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Complacency with our credit cards/passports/etc (pg. 3)
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| elzidane |
| seriously though ben, even today if someone really wants to steal your identity that badly they can. If this makes traveling and going through airport security that much easier, as well as making border workers jobs more efficient , then what is the problem? |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by elzidane
seriously though ben, even today if someone really wants to steal your identity that badly they can. If this makes traveling and going through airport security that much easier, as well as making border workers jobs more effeciant, then what is the problem? |
I am all for technology. Always have been, and always will be. It has nothing to do with technology being in this stuff. As I pointed out in my earlier posts, it is the implementation that they are using. |
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| d-miurge |
| quote: | Originally posted by gehzumteufel
Electronic passports more secure than classic ones? They are the same thing with the addition of the electronics in them..
Yeah I looked up what NFC was, but it is just an extension of RFID if you read up on it. How is that any more secure? I noticed I read it has a smartcard built in, which will, if implemented properly (and that is a big IF), provide much higher security. I just have my doubts. |
Some protections are physically written in the silicium. It will be possible to counterfeit it, but not people like us (while we can for a mastercard or a visa credit card). |
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by secked
As somebody who processes hundreds of individual credit card transactions each week, I can say that if you use your credit card at all, your identity is not secure. The trick is to be such a humongous loser, nobody even wants to become you for a while. |
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i was going to say, "don't worry ben, i'm sure no one's interested in you:p"
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by d-miurge
Some protections are physically written in the silicium. It will be possible to counterfeit it, but not people like us (while we can for a mastercard or a visa credit card). |
Cool. See, that is okay with me. Being that a serious hacker can get into anything, skimming is easy as ing pie. Some dumb down the street with the downs can easily get the hardware for $50 to site 30-40 feet away to steal that with RFID. |
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| idoru |
| I'll take Ben's side on this one. |
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| gehzumteufel |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
I'll take Ben's side on this one. |
It seems that only the people that know technology well even worry about it. All the regular folks are just calling us tin foil hat types. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| There you go, Ben. ******** will help you out. :o |
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| DjWhooCares |
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-Benjamin Franklin |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Everything's getting hacked these days. Credit cards, TA accounts, photobucket accounts, email accounts, Facebook accounts...you can't trust anybody. It even sorta weirds me out that my phone provider can remotely access my mobile if I need tech support. Same with internet really. God, who knows who's peeping your at any given moment! |
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| SuspicionVandit |
| You ever tried tying your shoe on a subway train? Hacking isn't limited to digital |
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