Please NO!
I don't want a special wrist band that says I am DVC.
I try very hard at Disney not to let CMs know that I am either DVC or an AP holder.
Sorry, but I am tired of "guilt by association" and some of my fellow members think that owning DVC means they can "abuse" cast members. If you have ever SCREAMED at a CM "I OWN PART OF THIS PLACE" hang your head in shame. You own part of timeshare. You do NOT own Epcot, MK, AK, etc.. You were not granted "lifetime fast passes" etc.. (I once saw a man just breate a CM because "My DVC card is the same a s a lifetime fast pass" He made a BIG SHOW out of writing down her name, the time etc "so I can report you to management" and stormed off. The girl did look terririfed until I said "I am an DVC member and he's lying" I think he had this act down and it probably works a lot!)
Eh. I don't use the dining plan and I would carry a credit card (a regular one, no RFID, although eventually it will probably come to all credit cards) rather than have a bunch of money in an account accessible through a RFID bracelet.
Don't want videos of myself either.
So it'll be something to use to get into the room and the park...will they put my annual pass on a wristband and i will just have to keep it all year?
Eventually they are just going to implant a chip in everybody's head.
If it can be programmed it can be hacked.
Exactly, and we all know about Disney's lack of good IT. Frankly, this idea scares me.
BINGO! Can you imagine how much you could do with a simple scanner and an iPhone. Walk though a line waiting to get into a park. You could walk away with a hundred or more numbers. What is the chance you won't get each one with charging privileges... Then add to that if it is somebody who works at Disney they now can get your room number and pay it a visit when you are in the park. Just watch your charges and they know where you are at all times... It is just not a safe technology. At least with the mag strip cards they need to have the physical card for a split second to make a copy... I know for us, while they are super cool (sort of) we will demand ours do not have charging privileges, tickets to anything nor can open our room. How long would it take you to walk though a hotel transmitting the door key code before you found the door it opened? Just think what you have in your room when you are staying at Disney...money, computer, phone, electronic games, medicine etc.... In another thread i added links to 11 articles that talked about how easily it was to skim and then clone an RFID.If it can be programmed it can be hacked.
BINGO! Can you imagine how much you could do with a simple scanner and an iPhone.
You do realize that the RFID tech doesn't put off a signal that far right? I mean you have to almost be touching the scanner to be able to activate it. And even then, it takes more than a couple of seconds to do so. I don't know about you, but someone trying to hold my hand tends to get my attention. If you are that unaware at the parks then up your medication or snap out of it. And the RFID replicator would be kind of noticeable in someones hands.
"Pay no attention to me while I stand up against you touching your armband for 3 or 4 seconds while holding this black box to it."
One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand, four one-thousand. Yes it took you 4 seconds to read that. If someone can hold the black box to your armband for that long without you noticing then you need help.
And you're forgetting something.... who the ---- cares enough to even do this? I have worked in the criminal justice field my entire working life and I can tell you that it is a very small percentage of people that would even bother with doing something like this. Really. And the charges could be disputed if it were EVER to occur. The same people that would do this would be the people that are pickpockets and how many times have you heard of someone getting their Disney KttW card stolen and charges jacked up on it? Don't lie. We already know.
...working in the IT industry I can promise you this is an open path to theft and fraud. The people wearing these IDs would be wide open for the hacking. Regardless of the precieved secuirty placed on it if the information is broadcasted it is available for the taking. Count me out on this one.
I've worked in the IT field myself before (still do on the side) and you should probably actually read up on Passive RFID before you start scaring people.
For those that are seriously worried about this wristband being "hacked" please read about them and see that the tech does not work the way some of the people here have been saying it does. The wristband emits no signal until it gets hit with the frequency from the transmitter/receiver (The device inside the scanner at the turnstiles and such) and even then you have to be practically touching the band to the transmitter/receiver to get it to broadcast its ID. Then it is matched against the resorts database to see who you are. A database that, the bored out of his skull hacker with nothing better to do in his day, wouldn't have. Even if the person were to be able to stand in one spot and some device you were wearing was actively sending out a ID signal for them to capture (which it doesn't btw), they would have nothing to compare it to to see if it had charging privileges. Are you telling me that they would take all of that info in and program bracelet after bracelet trying to get to one that has charging privileges? There is only a single piece of info that the bracelet will have stored, a long number (probably 16 digits or so) that will be sent each time it is scanned to Disney's central database and then translated into your information to compare to your reservation. All done in a few seconds. So I tell you what, they can have my RFID number.
I've worked in the IT field myself before (still do on the side) and you should probably actually read up on Passive RFID before you start scaring people.