[LINK] RFI: PayWave/PayPass Contactless Chip Cards

[Stephen Wilson]

On 11/04/2012 3:16 PM, Andy Farkas wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Roger Clarke<Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au>  wrote:
>>
>> Is anyone aware of any forms of consumer resistance to these things?
>>
>
> I got a new card last week.
> First thing I did was scratch the chip off.
Apart from protest value, what were you trying to achieve by that?

Perhaps in the 1960s some cardholders rued the transition from printed 
characters to magnetically encoded ones, and scratched off the ferric 
oxide strips.  I'm not sure.

Cheers,

Steve.

Stephen Wilson
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