Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Electronic Pickpocketing: Understand the Threat


Digitalization is the integration of digital technologies into everyday life by the digitization of everything that can be digitized. The literal meaning of digitalization gives an apparent idea of development and technology dependent world.

After demonetisation in 2016 India is heading towards digitalization...i.e probably hereafter all the money transactions will be digitalised...

Pick pocketing is a crime that has been with society for hundreds of years. Put simply, it involves lifting an item of value from inside a persons clothing; and most importantly without their knowledge of the theft at the time.

The act of pick pocketing requires considerable skill, dexterity and often the ability to misdirect the attention of others that might otherwise seek to alert the victim. One only has to think of fictional pickpockets such as those that appear within the pages of Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist to get a feel for how such crimes are choreographed

In the past, thieves had to physically steal your wallet to get ahold of your money, but now a casual brush against you is all they need to steal valuable payment information.

Electronic pickpockets, or the ‘e-pickpocket’ make claims that such devices can be adapted to remotely scan the data from ‘contactless’ bank cards. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chips, or tags as these are more commonly known, are now being added to bank cards, travel passes and door entry systems; with the hope that in doing so customer experiences will be improved.

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