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Mythbusters banned from talking about RFID chips by credit card companies

According to Adam Savage, Mythbusters wanted to do an episode about RFID chips and exactly how trackable and hackable they are, but a number of credit card companies that use and invest in the technology pressured Discovery from airing the episode.

Specifically, it looks like the lawyers of Visa, American Express, Discover and all the other bigwig debt slurpin’ credit card companies got in immediate contact with Discovery (the network that airs Mythbusters) and told ‘em if Savage and crew did the episode, the credit card companies would pull its advertisements and commercials from Discovery. Discovery caved and the RFID episode was axed.

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3:33 pm  •  6 February 2012  •  29 notes