Destroy the RFID chip in your credit card
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Protect your privacy! RFID chips are open invites for identity theft.

RFID chips are one way transmitters of information. They've been fitted into the newest credit cards. Unfortunately, they continuously broadcast all your confidential account information and are very easily hacked.

We've got the recipe for RFID destruction!

The easiest way to effectively deactivate an RFID chip is with brute force. Others have suggested nuking it in the microwave, cutting the silicon line to the antenna, or cutting it out with a knife. Unfortunately, these methods are a hassle and dangerous (the microwave method has been known to set fires).

FederalJack.com shows us how to destroy the RFID chip without disabling your credit card. To make sure your ID is free of RF, check out this video on scanning them from our friend Xeni at BoingBoingTV.

Disable an RFID chip in a credit card

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alecox 1 year ago
Damn straight well put men
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FederalJackdotcom 1 year ago
Thanks for posting our video. Keep throwing it down.

-FederalJack-

http://www.federaljack.com
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ninjutsu 11 months ago
way to stick it to the man!
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DaExterminator 11 months ago
Nice ;) Done it to my card.. Thanks mate.
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colddude 5 months ago
cool, screw the Big Brother and fraud artists. i think hole puncher would work just punch the little chip out and burn or destroy it.
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tintinmar 4 months ago
ok nice howto that shows what it tells.
By the way, the chip is not broadcasting anything by itself, it answers readers that wirelessly power the chip.
This RFID payment method is more secure than the magnetic stripe that can be easily copied.
There are some protective anti-RFID sleeve you can find on the Net that can protect your chip from being read anytime.
That was my two cents.
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kewal 3 months ago
FYI - border states like New York State are "offering" new drivers licenses that will double as passports to pass into Canada. These cards also have an RFID in them. Unless you disable or prevent in some manner the ability to a reader device from stimulating the RFID chip, such chips can be read at a distance.
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Sundive101 2 months ago
That's funny. Since Ontario turned down bringing the super license to Ontario, I wonder if they'll accept the super license offered by New York.
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MagicTuning 3 months ago
Oeps...
I broke the wrong chip xD
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algansk 2 months ago
No sooner had I registered my new credit card than no fewer than 144 (one full gross) of G-men and T-men made themselves known to my infared headset outside my house at midnight of the full moon. The joke was on them because they were unaware of my omnipotent powers of observation and ways to avoid the RF-ID taskforce.....
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Smithy227 2 months ago
very nice mate well done:L
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Spider7 2 months ago
The New World order will fall
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Chris488 2 months ago
WOW IM ONLY 13 AND I FAKED THE DAYS I WAS BORN WHERE YOU START YOUR PROFILE LIKE THE ONE THAT SAYS YOUR DATE OF BIRTH AND STUFF. I THOUGHT IF I PUT MYREAL BIRTHDATE,THEY WOULD STEAL MY IDENTITY AND STUFF LOL, NO REALLY
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jackster12 2 months ago
Well isn't that hilarious... that chip that you're destroying is ubiquitous in Europe, where it has CUT the level of identity theft and credit card fraud by 70%+... and here you guys are going the other way. Interesting.
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Damafiarejectkidd 2 months ago
u could have just used tha handle of screw driver.....smh
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Bryan Crow 2 months ago
So insecure to have RFID chips in a credit card... Such a bad idea!
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