Implants to replace Bank card and bus pass

[Compgeek]

Also worth keeping in mind a couple of things though…

@kayTH

If it is, you can probably use an xM1 implant, but keep in mind it’s likely that transit services will start transitioning to DESFire cards like mine has. They’ll be supported for a while, but not forever.

@Compgeek

honestly at this stage it’s not worth it even if you can technically make it work. Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow set the precedent in Australia - short version is that he got fined and dragged into court because Sydney’s public transport didn’t agree that his ‘tampered’ opal card was still a valid ticket so charged him with fare evasion. He’s paid at least $1k in court costs, but they eventually dropped the fine and charges because fare evasion wasn’t his intent and he still paid for his ticket. To this day, I think they have still disabled his implanted card because of their terms of service. This is a long way to say that Australia isn’t biohacker friendly on Public Transport, nor are most places in the world, so I’d hold off till they are.

Seems you CAN, and everyone has their own risk model, but at the moment I don’t think you SHOULD. My personal rule of thumb is that if a card has a government logo or has a ‘stored value’, I don’t play with it - people get funny if you start trying to clone keys to the council offices!