Essentially, it's a plastic membership ID that looks like a high-end AmEx.

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It's 2013 and white hat hackers like Adam Laurie are still breaking into ID chips that are supposed to be secure.

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The .com suffix generally implies an American domicile, though not exclusively. (The U.S. also has a .us suffix, but it is rarely used.) Canny opportunists are registering site names like Amazon.com.nl in the Netherlands or Infoseek.com.id in Indonesia, anticipating that Jeff Bezos or Disney will pay big bucks for the names as they move ahead with international e-commerce plans.

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