On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 18:45:23 -0500, Cheryl >
wrote:

>On 1/3/2016 6:20 PM, Doris Night wrote:
>
>> My MIL has a credit card, but I'm not sure how often she actually uses
>> it.
>>
>> I was in the grocery store with her last week, and when we got to the
>> check-out she said she wanted to use her card, then she handed it to
>> me and asked me if I'd do it. Then she whispered her PIN to me.
>>
>> I took the card, waved it over the pay-pass screen*, and handed it
>> back to her. "Easy!" I said to her.
>>
>> *In Canada, we don't have to swipe a card and enter a PIN. We just
>> have to touch a screen with the card. The whole thing takes about 1.5
>> seconds.
>
>That's the RFID chip in the recent cards. Those are the ones you want to
>protect from chip readers that thieves carry these days. A tin foil hat
>for your credit card so to speak, but in this case it isn't paranoia.

I have about five of them, no tin foil and no problems at all.