[geeks] RFID-based credit cards

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Quoth Mike Meredith ...
> 
> Are you sure it isn't a 'chip&pin' card ? A quick google 
> indicates that
> it wasn't rolled out in the US as of February this year. It must be a
> little irksome for a US traveller to try and buy stuff in Europe and
> find their card won't work.
> 
> Chip&pin cards have a gold multi-contact 'blob' on the left 
> of the card
> which contains a chip version of the mag stripe. It's supposed to make
> the card more difficult to clone. No RFID unless I'm mistaken.

Nope, no gold blob on the new card.

However, that does bring up the question ... how could I tell if this one
actually does have an RFID thing in it?

-S