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Posted on 08/31/2008 7:31:10 AM PDT by MichiganMan
Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID's security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage.
Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it.
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An RFID reader can read the info on your card while it is still in your wallet in your back pocket. Stay away from RFID cards.
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Really! Too bad. I haven't seen an episode yet (it looked too much like a Mythbusters's ripoff), but I was planning on taking one in eventually. How bad is it?
These chips cannot stand even a light blow from a hammer. Give your new passport a good beating.
One of my Grad School papers was on the dangers of RFID. I wonder how they’d feel if I published my findings out on the ‘net (which included how hackable RFID was, and how easy it is to read.)
Best picture of her ever. Wonder why she changed into such a dog this season ....
/pulls out hammer
/shakes head, pulls out large hammer
/smiles evilly and gets car keys
Thanks
For those of us who do not live in the geek world, just how do we know if we have something that has an RFID chip in it? Then how do we disable it?
Well I just heard about it here. I looked it up and found out that it was in those Paypass Mastercards, and some metro subways cards. It’s also in passports (US ones if you got it past 2006, which I did). Just Google whatever your cards before you get it with RFID to make sure. However, according to ccmay they are fragile and can be destroyed. However, I would expect that you wouldn’t want it destroyed the paypass card (Since it’s how you pay). You want to protect your card then, so that people can’t take up your information since even a RFID chip not powered can put out a signal out from 10cm to 10 meters (according to wikipedia). This would be what’s in a credit card. You can buy the wallet that ccmay recommended to me. It seems like that it would be safe enough.
Hope that helps
The crooks no doubt know about it already.
Nevertheless, it seems like Mythbusters should be helping the NY Times tip off terrorists on the various ways law enforcement agencies and the US military and intelligence communities track them. ;’)
You will want yourhour back. You look forward to the commercials.
You would prefer to be dutch ovened by Joy Behar!
It is a very lame rip off along with them blowing something up at the end.
Don't bet your life on it. Hold a modern bill up to the light and notice the thin magnetic strip running top to bottom near the left side. That has the serial number encoded
ATM machines spit out $20's. Hardly anybody uses $50's or $100's, so when you make a purchase and hand over a $20, that bill will most likely go straight back to the bank from the store. If the bank gets mandated to use cash counting machines which also record the serial #s of incoming cash, and ATMs that record the serial #s of outgoing cash, and forward those records to a central office, then the fed can have a list of where you've likely been shopping. And if a drug dealer is busted with cash which came out of your ATM, you may find yourself getting some questions
This may not be in place today, but it would be easy to put in place at some point
That was my point earlier, we lack the perspective to conceive of what possibilities RFID enables, and the ones we can come up with are pretty mind boggling. Another simple one: Imagine employers putting these one cent tags into increasingly ubiquitous Employee ID badges. A few well placed scanners and you have a time clock, even if your job "doesn't have a time clock"
Kari is quite hot, however on a recent episode I saw (the one with the ceiling fans that supposedly decapitated someone), they had another hot babe, this one blond and tattooed working along with Kari. And Kari had to excuse herself from one test, because she is a vegetarian, but the blond wasn't. Who was the blond, and where is a photo of her?
She is not on the show anymore as far as I know.
She is also quite spanky in her own way.
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