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WSIS Physical Security Cracked
An anonymous reader writes "A group of activists has apparently bypassed physical security checks at the WSIS Meetings. Not only did they bypass the physical security with a fake card, they found the system uses RFID tags to monitor participants -- possibly even who they interact with and their movements through the conference."
They are more reactionary than anything, opposing change at all turns.
You could call them anti-activists and it would make more sense.
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These people are looking to be put in charge of my Packets, yet they cant even keep a couple of geeks out of a confrence room? I'm sure we'll all feel REALLY safe ordering online with them in charge.
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sidenote: all them kids in the clubs must be great crackers .. I see them "cracked" and "bypassed physical security" all the time .. .. this is slashdot .. no one goes to clubs here ..
.. Wait .. how's this different than any other place that asks for your information .. like Police and Lawyers Love E-ZPass?
oh wait
then they disect the card that were given to them to find out that they have RFID chips but no one seems to know what it does.
Days before the Summit no physical security was available. Anyone could bring anything inside the conference
Yep, it was fairly easy to sneak my tin foil hat in.
except they were walking around and stuff.... neato.
Huh? If you RTFA you'll find that what they did was use a fake ID with the name of a real participant to obtain a badge. Nothing very clever about that.
Basically the "researchers" represented themselves as being someone else and used a fake (potentially) illegal piece of identification. Doesn't seem clever, just seems fraudulent.
They then go on to speculate about how "data mining" and RFID might be used for all sorts of nasty tricks and end up sounding like a bunch of paranoid crack-pots.
So, if I buy a fake passport on a street corner and then use it enter Germany, did I just "crack" Germany's security and can I get my picture on Slashdot?
John.
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I've really got to stop reading /. because every time I read something like this, I get all frustrated with the ridiculous means the powerful will use to stay powerful. If the RFID tracking assertion is true, am I right in imagining that it probably has no innocuous intention behind it? Or am I just crazy and paranoid because of what's happening to my country right now (USA)?
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I just want to go move to some Mediteranean island and grow a garden, buy from the local small businesspeople, and live life free and simple. Is it too much to ask that the folks "in charge" let a true people's democracy develop without being waylaid and corrupted by corporate and special interests?
Whoa. That just got a lot broader than it started! Sorry about that... life in conservative parts of the country gets a bit depressing sometimes
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that geeks are merely terrorists under another name!
In order to track locations to see who's close to who, you need many, many rfid transceivers. Probably so many, so close there'd be other issues (rf issues).
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The fact that the security was breached is not the most alarming thing about this. Nothing programmed by man is ever completely safe. The scary thing is that people professing to be security concious were bested because of something so simple, and which could have been prevented or easily stopped.
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
but...it does beg the question... who do these people think they are to try and set themselves up in a position to be the new overlords?
Its one thing if someone "outsmarts" (i.e. id theft like the group did) your security when its good... but this is funny, so laugh until this group gets control over something...
Though many have criticized this article as not really representing cracking or bypassing security in any impressive manner, I think there is a deeper issue here.
What information of use could be gleaned at future meetings or other UN events? The same people very likely do event security for this and other conferences, and the type of information that could be gleaned or the damage that could be done at other events is something to be taken seriously.
Personally, I despise the UN - but they (through US) are a force in the world and a breach of their security is nothing to laugh at too quickly.
How many roads must a man walk down? 42.
The problem here was one of physical security-all these guys really needed to get started was a name. During the 80's/early 90's, one of the concerns in the security field was also physical security-a hacker posing as a janitor and accessing unsecured systems, or dumpster diving, or using personal connections to get at employees and talk something valuable out of them. I would think that people would have learned by now that it takes more than simple electronic measures to stop "hacking". This could have been prevented if the powers-that-are had made the ID process a little harder.
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
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They are going to put these in tires. When you buy your tires the seller is going to be required to enter your information in a database.
One day when you are going a little too fast in a school zone or run a yellow that switches to red too fast an underground computer is going to sense the rfid in your tire, immediately reporting the number via rf link to police headquarters.
You would think that this would be for the purpose of giving you a ticket. You're right, you will get a ticket. But that is not the end the trail for your rfid number.
It immediately gets sent to the state government where it checks to make sure you are not a deadbeat dad that the wherabouts of are unknown. Simultaneously sending it to the FBI to see if you are a name on the "patriot" act watchlist and indexes your location. If you drive on the same street on a regular basis they will know where to find you.
You're not a deadbeatdad, lawbreaker, or terrorist you say??? Well the trail that your rfid number takes does not end there. Your rfid number is sold by cashed-strapped states to a commercial database under the auspices of "risk mitigation" that insurance companies subscribe to. Because you were speeding, you are at an increased risk and your car insurance rates are subsquently raised. Because you drive dangerously, your health insurance rates are also raised. Maybe they cancel your policy outright.
You're thinking I'll just remove the rfid. No you won't. Driving with unregistered tires is against the law, and if the police can't scan you as you drive past his cruiser he pulls you over and immediately suspends your license and impounds your car. But you won't be able to remove it anyway, without destroying the tire, as it is purposefully integrated with the "steel belt".
Does the trail end for your rfid tire number now? No, it most certainly doesn't. To see where it leads further, you are going to have to talk to my patent attorney.
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If the location you want to move to is of no value to them they might not care. If they decide you'd be a good escape goat for what they've done or a diversion for what they want to do they might come knocking again. I don't think you being a bad example from living a non-dominated life would be an issue since their proproganda machine is well oiled(pun).
> they found the system uses RFID tags to monitor participants -- possibly even
> who they interact with and their movements through the conference.
Or they could just use a camera to follow your movements through the conference and see who you interact with. Nothing new here... move along.
If anyone really wanted to track people by "remotely activating" their RFID tags without them knowing, they would need so many of these close-range readers that you wouldn't be able to walk! Plus you would need to figure out who's who by getting into the "DATABASE" that nobody knows about.
You might as well drop one of these nifty wireless camera in each corner of the room, betcha it would be way more effective for tracking people's whereabouts.
PS/ I hear they (Privacy Enemies) can track me down and see whatever I'm doing only by knowing my IP address!!! pH34r
The problem with any system in place is that when convenience is place ahead of security. The more convenient it is made for the people who it is going to protect and the people who are enforcing the system the less secure it will become. Well at least that is what I think part of the problem is.
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This wasn't a technical hack by any means... they brought a fake ID with the name of a real person on the guest list, and they got that person's badge issued to them. From that point on, they had as much clearance as that real person had, not surprising at all.
Just goes to show the inherent insecurity in demanding only a government-issued ID when many governments are involved. Any given state's drivers license has many anti-forgery features, but unless you have an inch-thick book with all of the features of every acceptable ID listed, an international event is gonna have a hard time relying on that alone.
Still, what's newsworthy about this failure? It happened at an important-to-the-Internet event, but it didn't really cause and damage...
What is it that makes you think RFID technology suddenly enables this?
Lemme clue you in, there's this wild and crazy technology that puts a unique identifier on every automobile driving on public roads. It's linked to your name in state databases and it's required by LAW. It's called a license plate, you dumb shit.
And amazingly, if you get caught by an officer speeding in a school zone or blowing a red light, they will run your license plate in their little laptop to see if you have any warrants out, like for being a deadbeat dad.
And your car insurance company has the ability to look up your driving record to see any tickets or accidents within the past few years.
I'd assume that most anyone has this ability, an assumption based on the fact that if you get a speeding ticket, within 2 days you'll receive about 150,000 postcards in the mail from ticket attorneys and driving schools.
Get a clue you dumb piece of shit.
Insightful
You're right, it wasn't a technical hack, but that doesn't mean it's not important. Social engineering (which I guess this comes under) deserves more respect than it currently gets. Your organisation might have God's own firewall but that's not a lot of use if an attacker attends a conference at your workplace, gets a temporary ID and then gets lifts a couple of laptops at lunch.
His biggest *break-ins* were physically walking into a computer room. Nowadays that is the least talked about security issue. Mitnick does a lot of educating on the topic but a lot of people called him *old fashion*. Well there you go, it happened, and to none other than WSIS. I think you should check those locks on your server rooms again.
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My Tires have tinfoil hats thoe??
You must be quite the stud at the annual holiday party, what with all your wit and all. Seriously, if you are just being hyperbolic in an attempt to discredit pathetic losers, that's great. If you're serious, you need a life. I doubt it is too late for you to change, but it might be close. Contact me if you need some help through your struggle.
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Group of idiots commit fraud to crash an important meeting and discover -- rf tags. Then in sanctimonious puffery they tell the world about it because...
Do you not think the organizers knew there were limits to what they had to spend on security?
Rfid tags have the advantage of not needing an interpreter if the delegate only speaks another tongue.
See who gets painted by the same brush as these jerks, not scientists, not researchers...
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...that allows people to be tracked by their looks, voice, smell, gait, handedness, hair color, height, skin color and sex.
It is possible to track interaction around a room or hall between individuals, while also recording conversations, gestures and purchases.
The collected data can be recalled at any time, based on any combination of queries or profiles.
What kind of techical gadget is this?
My memory. Be afraid....be bery, very afraid.
"4) These are the people who are deciding how the internet is going to be governed"
Not to get too off-topic, but I don't think that I like the direction that they want to take the Internet. Yes, it spans the globe, but it's something that a lot of private and public American funding went into designing, developing, and maintaining. I understand the need for standards, but I don't think that the U.N. is really right for governing the Internet. They have a hard enough time running peacekeeping missions in European countries, let alone anywhere else in the world, and that's stuff that there has been established methods around for quite some time.
My basic idea is this-- The U.S. had the single largest contribution to the idea of a global information network in the form of the Internet. If the rest of the world wants one of their own, let them create it themselves. There are enough people in enough other countries that if they want to slowly combine into one government with it's own infrastructure, let them. It's called competition, and it's been proven, that when coupled with the right amount of cooperation, to be very good at advancing things. If the U.N. builds their own global information network and it's better than the Internet, people will switch. If it's not, either through information availability problems, or through censorship, then it won't. Seems fairly simple.
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The World Summit on the Information Society is not a security conference. It is concerned with much broader issues of society and technology. You can find more info here
Why does everyone think RFID tags can be used to monitor the actions of people?
RFID tags are un-powered. In fact, they are powered by the RF signals that are used to read the RF tag. Because of this RF tags have transmission range of inches.
Simple way of taking care of the RFID tags in this tin hat situation;
Pay cash, (until the gov stops printing it, they must accept it) give them a fake name and phone number (the phone book is full of them), buy or make a RFID reader and locate the tag in the tire and cut that section of the tire out and put it in a microwave for about 30 seconds. DING! The RFID tag is fried, now replace the cutout in the tire and freely run down kids in school crosswalks with the red lights.
Hmm, just read the rest of your post. You're screwed.
NarratorDan
"If you're not confused by quantum mechanics, you really don't understand it." - Niels Bohr
"Pay cash"
What if they put RFID in the cash?
> Pay cash, (until the gov stops printing it, they must accept it) give them a fake name and phone number
You can't rely on that much longer.
Ever try to rent a hotel room these days? They're taking to scanning your license and up pops your customer profile.
It is not a substantial leap to expect the computer to verify the name on that license with the state. Or that, for various transactions, the state will not require same.
The RFID in tires! eureka is a a bit of delayed paranoia, tho. They're already fully enabled to accomplish the poster's goal -- with simply cameras. They already "read" dozens of plates per second at nearly every toll road, most garages and parking lots, and other key traffic areas. Isn't the UK already thinking of taxing every car "seen" on key roads once a day, every day they show up?
Why bother putting RFID detectors everywhere when you can get SOOO much more coverage with a camera?
This is probably another case of "You get what you pay for", but the issues here go beyond simply using a fake ID to breach physical security. The fact that the data needed to fake the ID was culled from the attendee list on the website speaks volumes as to how much thought actually went into the security architecture for this event. I mean, really, someone should of thought of that possibility. Why didn't they verify or vet this identification in some way ?
Another frightening fact is that these jokers' security processes, if you consider the RFIDs as 'security',are violating the laws of both the host country and the EU. This is the biggest issue, IMHO. "Security" also means adhering to all applicable laws and regulations, in order to limit your liability, and the liability of your employer.
And what about these guys walking around snapping photos of the screener's monitors ? Whats up with that ?
The bottom line is that these "security experts" at SportAccess, or wherever, are incompetent. Their security model was ill-conceived, poorly executed, needlessly intrusive and (obviously) completely ineffective.
"Nothing is impossible for the man who refuses to listen to reason"
Speaker at WSIS: blah blah blah
Disembodied Voice: The bomb has been planted.
Speaker: What the hell?
Crowd: *murmurs, confused looks*
*KABOOM*
Disembodied Voice: Terrorists Win.
But then, are you going to make illegal the large parking lots full of swappable tires outside, say, WalMart? Or any Mall? How long would it take to exchange 1 "hot" tire without the knowledge of the donor?
Why stop at tires anyway? A tag in the battery would be more difficult to remove, and look at all the power available for it to punch a signal out with when it gets pinged by the detector... Tag the oil filter, engine crankcase, transmission. All this would be done in the guise of tracking down thieves that steal cars and strip them for parts...
Forget tagging car parts, consider how much easier it would be to tag the people... No need to carry a forgeable ID, just let the officer ping your embedded tag. Think you don't have one? Remember that prostate exam, or the last flu shot, or that root canal, or other similar procedure? Hmmm...
I'm assuming I'm remembering correctly something I read recently about the tags only being about the size of a grain of rice. Obviously anything bigger would be difficult to implant without the implantee being aware.
Too bad they didn't attend the real conference. They got caught by the decoy conference.
Everyone else they saw was doing the same thing they were, and nobody knew because they weren't talking about it..or at least they didn't happen to do so within earshot of someone who understood their language.
RFID technology automates all this, no need for the cop anymore. No need for visually checking license plates. Suddenly everyone and anyone is tracked.
That is the big difference. The fact that this information will be entered into several hundred databases automatically.
They could, but cash changes hands so quickly it would be a lesson in futility. The better idea would be to ban cash (cash is too easy for terrorists to counterfit) and go solely with credit/debit cards which do have RFID tags as part of the smart chip.
NarratorDan
"If you're not confused by quantum mechanics, you really don't understand it." - Niels Bohr
I'm curious what happened to the person who they pretended to be... were they sick? Just didn't show up? Or when they came did security say, "sorry sir you've already signed in" deemed him a fake and locked the real guy away and are torturing him even as we speak? I dunno curious about that....
-Hotels.
-Flights.
-Rental Cars.
-Anything via the Internet or phone.
Good luck with the cash, dude. I like the sentiment, I agree with it, but realistically?
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AFAIK there exist cameras which automatically pick up license plate information. Here in Austria it's used for section control, where they place two such cameras at a given distance and automatically issue a ticket if you need too little time to cover the distance.
Point is: RFID serves interesting purposes but certainly not that of surveying ordinary citizens. One good purpose might well be intercepting car thieves at the border. Remember. it's simple to swap license plates, whereas it takes time and effort to swap all four tires without getting noticed.
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CASH too easy to counterfeit??? As a certified terroristcriminal(TM), I'd rather work with the credit/debit cards. Smart chips are fun to hack. Anyway, CC companies don't care about fraud, they just push the costs onto the merchant. ;-)
As part of physical security testing, my colleagues have successfully gained access to premises using
- a white sachet of tartare sauce
- a square-cut jam sandwich
It's difficult enough getting security guards to turn up for work on the minimum wage, let alone actually *challenge* people.When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
The difference is that a RFID reader is much cheaper than a videocamara + a system that enables it to actually read a dirty license plate.
And since it is cheaper, it will be more easy to setup more places.
And why stop at tires - what if(when?) it gets integrated in clothes?
(Not that I think it will happen where I live - just trying to make a point!)
The part about RFID tags used for tracking is utter and total BS. In fact yesterday I was at WSIS. I did have the badge, and yes it is marked with a RFID, but the bugger is passive and I had to put it real close to the scanner to read it. I tried to just casualy swipe it from afar, but I had to actualy put it right in front of the reader.
More on security: at the entrance you walk through metal detector gates, with a X-ray scanner for the bags. You are processed by 4 security guys - one takes your bags, other works the gate and X-ray scanner, third scans your badge and compares your face to picture on the badge to picture in the DB they get based on the RFID tag. All these images have to match. If there is any problem there is the fourth guy standing behind with a rifle.
Yes - the 1337 h4x0rz could have bypassed this by getting the official badges, because when you have the badge you don't have anything standing in your way. No - they could not have gotten to the bigwigs, because that part of the conference was separated, with stronger security checks, which were obviously not done just at the place, since the bigwigs were escoreted from their mansions, with the whole entourage, and I suppose that you don't expect presidents and prime-ministers to go around carrying badges on the straps around their necks, and walk through the metal-detector gates a few times.
In fact, the easiest way for "terrorists" to sneak in would be to get listed as active participants by a frendly government of a rogue state.
I wish that people would concentrate more on the positive results of WSIS, instead of spreading FUD.
would this work?
google seems to think so The truth of the matter is that a microwave oven is massively over-powered for the job of killing RFID tags
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Hi there! Here's the deal: A system you envision would require thousands of readers in a local area to even get just the major chokepoints in a moderate sized metropolitan area. This is going to require a dedicated group of workers to maintain these buggers (power, networking, and eventual breakage from exposure to the elements because unlike velcro the aliens didn't give the tech to us) Thats a bunch of people. I'll tell you what: I go outside on MY street and I see a bunch of freaking potholes in the street. Traffic is congested all over the place, and nonstop construction doesn't keep pace with population growth in the area.
So you're telling me that the good people of the land are going to vote this system in? Ahead of say a new lane on the bottleneck highway or perhaps some new pavement so we don't all actually reaquire H2s to navigate the streets?
Who's paying for this tinfoil technology? Not the state governments, that's for sure. You seem to forget that despite the wild slippery slope theories people come up with, no one really looks at the practicality of making such a system work. Embedding millions of RFID tags nation wide at the cost of billions and billions of dollars to build and operate just doesn't seem like something people want.
But don't worry, this is just FUD. I work for THEM, and now that you're onto us Mr. Slashdot #ID 710711, we're going to have to shut you up. After all, we know where you are! (Cue creepy music)
I'm a delegate to WSIS, so I've been here for going on three days...
First, the security here is quite interesting...as other posters have mentioned, getting into the actual facility is more or less impossible without the proper badge. The exploit that these individuals used was to simply trick the badging desk - a location right next door manned (mostly) by teenage girls. I highly doubt that they're trained security professionals.
Two, the RFID badge has a range of about an inch. If there are transponders all over the place, I have yet to see them. The physical layout of the building would kaie it difficult to place them inconspicuously...there's far too much open space, with thirty foot ceilings...
Just my two cents (CHF)...
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When I was in the US Navy, I got to learn a few things that most security experts get to learn the hard and embarrasing way:
1) Security is hard work and requires the involvement of people with great integrity willing to work very hard. Security requires the highest level of attention to detail, trust that proceedures will be followed and absolute trust that when the proceedures don't work, don't apply or are circumvented that the individual will make the right decisions.
2) You cannot delegate security to any machine. This includes padlocks, safes, computers, surveilance systems, and alarm systems. These are all designed to assist the hard working humans with great integrity. They have no ability to make decisions when their processes fail, are circumvented or don't apply.
3) The inclusion of anyone without great integrity inside a secured area is insecure. Loose lips sink ships. This is why security is so difficult in any semi-democratic organization - there is no way to exclude those you can't trust.
4) Confidence is like corrosion. It slowly destroys even the strongest security just as corrosion will eventually sink the most powerful ship in the fleet.
Sounds like WSIS violated three of four of these rules.
-- $G
Isn't the UK already thinking of taxing every car "seen" on key roads once a day, every day they show up?
Noppe, not thinking of it - in the "congestion zone" of London they are already DOING this!
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How is this different than a ticket issued by a cop who's using radar, and by the way-
the state I live in, and every one I have lived in- automatically does give moving violations to insurance agencies, and rates do rise! based on violations of the motor vehicle sort..
I've been having this ethical oddity lately.. from my youth when I was a rebellious sort, to now when I have wife child home, and don't believe in 'breaking the law'
I do feel strongly people are entitled to privacy and freedom of choice.. but the solution to the original post is Don't be a deadbeat, lawbreaker, terrorist, or speeder (interesting the OP doesn't consider speeders under lawbreaker)
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
Pre-Criminal
The system includes also a X-Ray and metal screening system. Two days before we were in the Congress bringing all kind of boxes and equipment. No physical access security was implemented until the very late time and we could move inside freely carrying any items.
Why were they bringing in equipment two days before? Were they testing security or were they employeed to carry stuff around by the conference? If the latter is true then it isn't much of an accomplishment to have gotten in.
Also in one of the photos of the "ominous security screen" the name is clearly "John DOE". Why is this the case? No explaination is given. This whole writeup is poorly done. They also offer no proof that they actually got in. Just some pictures of the security area. They don't even have a high-resolution shot of the card itself.
So what exactly does this article prove? That /. will post any crap that makes RFID look bad. That's about it. It isn't even clear if they are using RFID as opposed to say ISO14443 cards.
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but the solution to the original post is Don't be a deadbeat, lawbreaker, terrorist, or speeder (interesting the OP doesn't consider speeders under lawbreaker)
That is not a valid solution. I'm sure there are a hundred people waiting right now to tell you why.
Sure I really dug Information Society, and they haven't put out any new material since 2001, but is that any reason to hold a frickin' World Summit??
*duck*
In short, the photos show a group that appears to know how to spend a lot of money on toys, but doesn't know how to use them. I think this is a serious concern. The information they are collecting isn't providing security, and could actually undermine it.
The illusion of security is worse than no security at all.
I hear that the DOT has developed a new driver identification system called 'license plate'. It uses a specially developed optical identification system that can be read at a distance not only by sensors but by individual motorists. The serial number encoded on each 'license plate' can be used with a government database to identify the owner of the vehicle and even reference their criminal record.
So, this is a bit offtopic, but a serious question about this system.
Why can't you just put an LCD shutter over your license plate, and trigger it when you pass the camera? They'd be unable to read the plate, and you would be effectively invisible to the tracking.
If you wanted to get really fancy, you could record the GPS positions of all the cameras, and automate the shutter.
It seems to me that as long as there wasn't a cop car behind you, it would be pretty close to zero risk.
see subject.
from the article:
... maybe I'll do some 'independant research' of my own at the ROTK premiere next week ...
The World Summit of Information Society has contracted SportAccess, a Company of Kudelski Group, as the main responsible of an integrated solution for physical access control solution during the United Nations Summit of Information Society.
This stunt proves nothing about the security and privacy practices of WSIS, despite the general clamour in this forum. This was a minor slip-up of a third party, not WSIS itself. SportAccess gave passes to people who misrepresented themselves.
BTW - what's up with the 'bypass physical security' euphemism? I always thought it was called 'sneaking', as in 'I snuck into a bar' or 'I snuck into a movie' and was done by underage punks who wanted to go where they had no business being. Now it's done by 'independant researchers' and it's 'bypassing physical security'? Hmmm
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When it came to surveiling and oppressing their own people, money was never an issue even for the poorest countries in the world. Laws against unreadable license plates exist in at least every country which issues automated speeding tickets through radar boxes.
Integrating RFID in clothes won't work. Cars are strongly regulated - people are used to the fact
that they have to ask their government for kind permission to operate a car. If you put restrictions on clothes, even the dumbest soap opera watching pop corn munchers will start an outcry.
*Gasp* You mean, with an RFID tag in my credit card, the collective evil "they" will know exactly when and where I use it, only mere moments afterward?
If this article confuses you, don't worry. It was posted yesterday in a much clearer fashion.
Why do the foil hatties come out in droves whenever the subject of RFID's comes up? If someone really cares about you so much that they want to track your every waking moment, they will. There is only so much usefulness in an RFID anyway. One ex-cop thrown off the force for drinking Thunderbird following you around all day will give you much more info than an RFID tag ever could. And you can pay him in grain alcohol.
If this article confuses you, don't worry. It was posted yesterday in a much clearer fashion.
y'know- for frying RFID tags embedded in things that won't fit in your microwave..
Thank you.
Or you could just pay the fucking fee. Or use public transportation (GASP).
Pay cash,
And the tire guy merely records your car license plate and/or VIN in the transaction. Same result.
Of course, I purchased the tires and donated them to a poor(er) person who could not afford new tires on their own. Looks like I got busted for someone elses crimes. Damn, this will hold up in court for sure!
I can't afford a sig!
The issue is bigger than one of the the use of RFID's, but one of data handling practices and policies. Held in Geneva, it's a UN summit, but what if any data privacy and freedom of information policies exist at the UN - NONE. That that issue wasn't raised at all , by anyone, is the tragedy.
they reqire an airel so this makes them much bigger, still worrying....
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