Comments on: CBS video: Cybersecurity at the Olympics

Joel Brenner, the U.S. national counterintelligence executive, talks with Bob Orr of CBS News about the threats that travelers to China could be facing and offers advice on how travelers can protect themselves.

[Travis Ernst]

The cards (credit/debit) with RF transmitters that are out there, can be "grabbed" out of air within about 6 inches using a specific device unless you have a "shielded" wallet. The recent hacker con made a note of this. it does not take direct contact of a card to a swipe to make a copy anymore. Be careful at any mass gathering like the olympics, concerts, conventions.

[everwanted2]

That same hacker also said that if he had a stronger antenna, he would be able to gra their info from a longer distance. However, even though this will only stop the lazy hackers, they will attempt to set up an encryption system that requires the user to input in a machine similar to bluetooth pairing a code that will allow the machine to see the card's information, but like I said, if you have a dedicated hacker, this could be very possible with rainbowcrack, an RFID reader and a UMPC...

[benjaminstraight]

Too much lock down.