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RFID More Hackable Than Retailers Think?
Iphtashu Fitz writes "Lukas Grunwald, a senior consultant with DN-Systems Enterprise Solutions GmbH, is warning retailers that the RFID technology that they are quickly adopting can easily be hacked with the appropriate tools. Grunwald has written a program called RFDump which lets you read and display all metadata within an RFID tag and also modify the user data using a text or hex editor. He wrote this program to demonstrate how consumers can protect themselves by wiping out RFID data after purchasing a product but he acknowledges that it would be trivial to abuse this behavior. What, you might ask, can you do if you hack an RFID tag? Well as the technology is adopted more widely a thief could conceivably mark down the price of an expensive piece of jewelry before paying for it at an automated checkout counter, underage hackers could purchase alcohol or adult movies, and pranksters could simply reprogram the inventory of an entire store by just walking up and down the isles. 'The people who will be using this (shopkeepers) don't know much about technology,' Grunwald warned."
stupid rfid
losing track
Sir, the word is loosing
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> Sir, the word is loosing
Only if you're stupid
it would've been funnier if you spelled it stoopid... you know, just for kicks
...no, it isn't.
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Are you talking about "teh fonicks" - valu addition?
she's so sure to notice the diff between hellmans and stor brand mayo?
frenches and store brand? both little yellow bottles?
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
"...just walking up and down the isles."
Waterworld, great movie. And that Costner, what an actor. I'd love to see him team up with Barney Rubble.
Bill
Upon seeing the box was too small, Schrodinger's Elephant breathed a sigh of relief.
oh God please let that be a spelling mistake and not a new "phonics 2: return of the retards" version of phase.
It's just a mistake, don't let it faze you.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
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