texascavers Digest 8 Feb 2013 20:03:16 -0000 Issue 1703
Topics (messages 21283 through 21288):
Article: Promotion of Bat Conservation in Mexico
21283 by: Cruz St.Peter
21284 by: Sheryl Rieck
RFID Credit Cards
21285 by: Mark Minton
Gonzo Guano Gear
21286 by: Jim Kennedy
RFID chips
21287 by: Mixon Bill
21288 by: Stefan Creaser
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All,
TAMU researchers, and the Aggie Speleological Society's own Rachel
Saker, will be participating in a research project to help promote bat
conservation in Mexico. This looks like a pretty cool project
combining both natural and social sciences.
The article can be found here:
http://www.thebatt.com/students-research-team-to-further-conservation-awareness-of-bats-in-mexico-1.2983763
--
Cruz St.Peter
Laboratory Technician
Department of Oceanography / IODP
Texas A&M University
stpe...@geos.tamu.edu
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That's my girl!!!!!!
Sheryl
Sent from my iPhone-Resistance was futile.
On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:10 PM, "Cruz St.Peter" <cruzstpe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> TAMU researchers, and the Aggie Speleological Society's own Rachel
> Saker, will be participating in a research project to help promote bat
> conservation in Mexico. This looks like a pretty cool project
> combining both natural and social sciences.
>
> The article can be found here:
> http://www.thebatt.com/students-research-team-to-further-conservation-awareness-of-bats-in-mexico-1.2983763
>
> --
> Cruz St.Peter
> Laboratory Technician
> Department of Oceanography / IODP
> Texas A&M University
> stpe...@geos.tamu.edu
>
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Not caving related, but could affect
everyone. Scary. <http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/lLAFhTjsQHw>
Mark
Please reply to mmin...@caver.net
Permanent email address is mmin...@illinoisalumni.org
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I recently received word that GGG will be at Colorado Bend State Park this
weekend selling gear at the NCRC seminar. If you want anything, Becky will be
at the Conference Center on Saturday only.
-- Jim
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No new news there. To really abuse the card as shown, somebody needs
both the reader and the cloner. Sure it could happen. But why does
everybody worry about things like sending their credit card numbers
over the Internet or electronic cloning, when they're prefectly
willing to give their credit card to a waiter who disappears with it
temporarily and does God knows what while he's got it? Some waiters
have been found to have credit-card readers, the simple kind that read
the magnetic stripe, of their own. Some people have hacked merchants'
computers and intercepted the data from ordinary magnetic-stripe
credit-card readers. There are plenty of ways to get credit card
numbers. But if you're really worried about it, you could take the
suggestion to wrap your card in aluminum foil--not a hassle if you're
like me and hardly ever use it except for mail orders or very rare
large purchases like a set of tires.
Anyway, if you check your statement every month (you _do_, don't
you?), you can get fraudulent charges removed easily.
The good news it that the technology is very short range.
I have a weird friend who has injected an RFID chip into his hand. It
unlocks his smart phone; some Android phones have RFID chip readers in
them. They're everywhere....
What I'd be interested to hear is how one can kill an RFID chip. Would
a few seconds in a microwave do it, for example? At some point Texas
drivers licenses will have RFID chips in them--maybe some already do.
If somebody wants to see my drivers license, I might not be in the
mood to be very helpful, and it would be nice if he couldn't just read
the info automatically. I've tried to demagnetize the stripe, but I
have no way to know whether that's been successful. -- Mixon
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Here you are, Bill:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-blockkill-RFID-chips/step4/How-to-kill-your-RFID-chip/
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From: Mixon Bill [mailto:bmixon...@austin.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 1:32 PM
To: Cavers Texas
Subject: [Texascavers] RFID chips
No new news there. To really abuse the card as shown, somebody needs both the
reader and the cloner. Sure it could happen. But why does everybody worry about
things like sending their credit card numbers over the Internet or electronic
cloning, when they're prefectly willing to give their credit card to a waiter
who disappears with it temporarily and does God knows what while he's got it?
Some waiters have been found to have credit-card readers, the simple kind that
read the magnetic stripe, of their own. Some people have hacked merchants'
computers and intercepted the data from ordinary magnetic-stripe credit-card
readers. There are plenty of ways to get credit card numbers. But if you're
really worried about it, you could take the suggestion to wrap your card in
aluminum foil--not a hassle if you're like me and hardly ever use it except for
mail orders or very rare large purchases like a set of tires.
Anyway, if you check your statement every month (you _do_, don't you?), you can
get fraudulent charges removed easily.
The good news it that the technology is very short range.
I have a weird friend who has injected an RFID chip into his hand. It unlocks
his smart phone; some Android phones have RFID chip readers in them. They're
everywhere....
What I'd be interested to hear is how one can kill an RFID chip. Would a few
seconds in a microwave do it, for example? At some point Texas drivers licenses
will have RFID chips in them--maybe some already do.
If somebody wants to see my drivers license, I might not be in the mood to be
very helpful, and it would be nice if he couldn't just read the info
automatically. I've tried to demagnetize the stripe, but I have no way to know
whether that's been successful. -- Mixon
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