The accuracy of location services in apps is CONCERNING

Isn't that how the cards let you tap to pay?

 

How exactly is society going to collapse if we can see inside your apartment?

 

everyone knows not to use your cards if you are on the run. why anyone cares if im at velaros and stop and shop though dosnt make me not want to use my card there.

 

yes, nothing can "block" the frequency. Its way to high. Scam artists try to sell products that dont work against scammers, who can get your information with RFID scanners at airports for instance.

 

wonderful - I hate modern society, I am about ready to just walk into the desert again. I am tired of everyone finding a way to take everything I have

 

Wouldn't a faraday cage block the frequency, or a lead box...x-rays can't penetrate lead and their frequency is waaayyyy higher than cell frequencies

 

You would have thought just one person on that missing plane would have had one of those apps.

 

Yes...

They have a 'range' of about [contactless payment] that much.

RFID tags are typically cheap, read-only, low-memory devices that can be read over greater distances and that have no or minimal security, contactless payment cards and readers contain secure microprocessors and memory, have the ability to perform cryptographic processing, have multiple functions, and are required to operate at very short ranges of less than 2 to 4 inches so that the consumer needs to make a deliberate effort to initiate the payment transaction.

http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/partner-zone-infosecurity/rfid-contactless-payment-security

 

I was just reading that the pilot may have taken them out of range

Another theory circulating is that the plane was taken up to 45,000ft to kill the passengers quickly, former RAF navigator Sean Maffett says. The supposed motive for this might have been primarily to stop the passengers using mobile phones, once the plane descended to a much lower altitude. At 45,000ft, the Boeing 777 is way above its normal operating height. And it is possible to depressurise the cabin, notes Maffett. Oxygen masks would automatically deploy. They would run out after 12-15 minutes. The passengers - as with carbon monoxide poisoning - would slip into unconsciousness and die, he argues. But whoever was in control of the plane would also perish in this scenario, unless they had access to some other form of oxygen supply.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26609687

 

RFID in credit cards is a big trend for transmitting an encrypted pin along with a transaction. Considering the range of these UHF RFID's is feet or so, they couldn't track you with your credit cards if you wandered too far from a Starbucks.

 

'Feet'? Where do you get 'feet' from? One foot? Two feet? three feet? How many feet are we talking about? I thought it was inches. Otherwise they would be working as I stepped up to the counter rather than when placing the card on the terminal. Are you saying Starbucks is working for GCHQ/NSA etc?