by Michael Snyder, The Economic Collapse Blog:

Have you noticed a charge on one of your cards that you can’t explain?  If so, you may be a victim of one of the “tap-to-pay” terminals that are being installed all over the nation.  The television commercials that promote RFID technology that allows us to pay just by tapping a card are designed to make us feel warm and fuzzy about this new method of conducting transactions, but it turns out that this technology is not nearly as secure as most of us thought.  The industry insists that cards with these new chips can only be detected four inches away from the terminal, but there have been numerous cases where cards are literally being charged “from across the room”…