Disable PAYPASS on your credit/debit card.

Another way to disable the unwanted, abominable, and inherently unsecurable PAYPASS rfid "Tap & Go" facility on your cred/debit card.

[ADIT] Oh, and background music is "'In The House -- In A Heartbeat" by John Murphy. It was used in the movie "28 days later". Seemed apt what with this being a "28 degrees" card. ;-)

Soundtrack has also been put to good use by the "jollygreenwatchman" here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-esLrrqGKkE

Zombie music for zombie card carriers and zombies to greenazi totalitarianism :-) :-)

regarDS

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• rfid
• paypass
• fraud
• skimming
• prison planet
• id systems
• zombie

[craig2085]

is the chip and pin the thing you drill a hole in the same chip as paypass because i had a card that only had paypass and you can see an indent in it and i wanted to know if by disable the gold chip you are also disabling the paypass and isn't drilling a hole in the gold chip disable the whole card thanks

[derspatz48]

@craig2085 - I honestly can't tell you for I don't actually use this card for anything other than ONLINE transactions and automatic payments. Because I rarely handle it, I just wanted to secure it from other people taking and using it without my consent or knowledge. From what I can gather in a thread about it on the "whirlpool" forums (finance area) is that if the chip is damaged it will STILL work as a magnetic swipe card.

regarDS

[derspatz48]

@craig2085 - I've read another way to disable PAYPASS is to snip a corner off the card at least 5mm in to break the embedded wires which are part of the inductance charge for rfid system. Dunno how accurate that information is though but I guess you could test the idea before drilling/punching a hole in the actual chip.

regarDS

[htc14452]

Well, at least nobody will be able to steal from you by forging the signature that's drawn on the back of the card.

'Course, like you'll now have to do, they'd have to find one of the remaining terminals that doesn't force chip & pin even when you swipe. Good luck with that.

[derspatz48]

@htc14452

Considering I only use this card for online transactions anyway, it isn't going to affect me in the slightest, and I can now all but forget about it and not have to worry about it being "borrowed" from my wallet.

regarDS

[derspatz48]

@htc14452

Let's just pretend it was your card. You take your partner out for lunch at a busy but nice cafe attached to a deli, and you hand over the card to your backpacker waiter to pay for it. She takes it back and tap&go's your bill ... and then she tap&go's a pack of cigs for herself, coz she's working for cash under an assumed name and leaving at the end of the week anyway.

You discover the unauthorised purchase at the end of the month. Are you going to worry about it ?

regarDS

[Superminuter]

Interesting, title says disable the Paypass, but what u did is drill a hole on the chip. I think the PAYPASS and CHIP are not same thing. Paypass tag is in the right end of the card, and also if your card comes with a chip, sometimes you can't swipe&sign but have to use chip&pin. So what you did actually not disabled Paypass, your card died but Paypass still alive.

[staphinfection]

How come you sign all your posts "regarDS"? What does the DS mean? Such a mystery....

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

@mattshark100 let's let him verify that. on most credit cards you just remove the square receiver. pretty easy to do.

[mattshark100]

@pisces3750 or anything else

[mattshark100]

@TheNewMusicNetwork He's drilling through the gold chip that you need to insert into the manual card reader, Most EFTPOS machines do not accept the mag strip on a gold chip card, only the gold chip, if you swipe the card it says "insert the card" you can't insert the card because you drilled throught the chip disabling ALL manual transactions rather than the SSID. On most cards the SSID is at the other end of the card, the indentation opposite the gold chip.

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

@mattshark100 no it wont. you remove it and don't touch the strip

[TheNewMusicNetwork]

DONT USE IT.

e.o.s.

[pisces3750]

@mattshark100 Once you follow the video. Try at a Shop! Pay Pass will Not work.

[pisces3750]

@derspatz48 Disable as the Video shows...Otherwise You Still will be Tracked & Can be Skimmed without knowing! . Card works! but NOT Pay Pass!

[pisces3750]

@derspatz48 Follow the Instructions... It Disables Pay Pass!