[Billy Cheung] decided to build a crystal radio using a rather unconventional detector – the smart chip in a common credit card. This is possible because the smart chip on many credit cards ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South ...

However, they've also made it possible for credit card details and other private information ... MIT and Texas Instruments are developing an "unhackable" RFID chip that's designed to fend off ...

It used to be that if you needed to urgently replace your credit card ... world's largest payment card producers, on the Smart Payment Association. "They use the same kind of chip technology ...