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Electric Clothing - RFID Pocket Replacment

Mikey writes "The project describes how the average person can rip out a pocket from a pair of jeans and replace it with a cotton like fabric which contains enough conductive material to block most RFID tag frequencies. Watch the video." Link.

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Posted by: CargoMan on May 19, 2006 at 9:51 AM

I read a post on this. A convict was showing a television agency how easy it was to make a small antenna connected to a little electric device. All the criminal had to do was wave the tiny antenna past a persons pocket to pick up the RFID from your entrance badge or whatever it may be and the criminal has your id. He then copied it to his laptop and quickly made his own duplicate RFID that allowed him to enter a high security section of a business. Scary stuff. Where do we go from here?

Cargo Man

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