Really, this is nothing new. Metrorail and Metrobus in Washington, D.C. have been using contactless smartcards at the faregates for years. And people have already succeeded in dissecting the cards and placing the contents behind the battery covers of their cell phones.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Really, this is nothing new. Metrorail and Metrobus in Washington, D.C. have been using contactless smartcards at the faregates for years. And people have already succeeded in dissecting the cards and placing the contents behind the battery covers of their cell phones.