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   From: gsm@mendelson.com   
      
   Roderick Stewart wrote:   
      
   > It can only be a matter of time though. Merseyrail has some kind of   
   > electronic sensing system at Central Station that will accept my old fogey   
   > pass if it's just waved in the general vicinity of the ticket slot on one   
   > of the exit barriers. Evidently the start of some master plan. I had no   
   > idea my pass had any electronics in it, as it just looks like a piece of   
   > printed plastic.   
      
   It's a RIFID (pronounced like the three legged plant) chip. They are in   
   everything these days. If you search youtube you can find some interesting   
   videos about them, including one of a person who put a 900mHz reader in his   
   car with an antenna covering a side window. He was able to read the information   
   on credit cards, driver's licenses, passports etc of people passing him in   
   other cars and on the street as he drove by.   
      
   The Mythbusters were going to do a show about them, and were told by the   
   credit card companies not to do it. Discovery Network agreed so they are   
   never going to do one.   
      
   Geoff.   
      
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