"Electronic Pickpocketing" becomes reality.

[Nurb]

Once money goes digital, computer geeks will be the richest class in the world. Do you think there's any way to combat it, or will it become like piracy where programming can be defeated by programming?

Take a walk down wall street, or Rodeo Drive one day and retire in some tropical paradise.

 

[PeePantz]

I'm not sure if this thread is purposefully being ten to fifteen years late to the party or not.

These have been out for quite some time and this isn't the only means where someone can get access to your accounts/identity.

 

[Nurb]

I'm not sure if this thread is purposefully being ten to fifteen years late to the party or not.

These have been out for quite some time and this isn't the only means where someone can get access to your accounts/identity.

I don't think it was this easy 10-15 years ago, dude.

 

[ShadowKatt]

I dunno about 10-15 years, but you are still way late to the party. This has been going on ever since RFID became commonplace. Big places to hit now are airports as passports have all their data on RFID, and if you don't have a passport, your passport contains ALL of your identifaction information, full name, full address, contact numbers, birthdate, SSID, everything that would allow a thief to say "Look, this is who I am and here is my information to prove it."

 

[Geekosaurus]

Once money goes digital

It isn't already?