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RFID Injection Required for Datacenter Access
user24 writes "Security focus reports that RFID injections are now required for access to the datacenter of a Cincinnati company. From the article 'In the past, employees accessed the room with an RFID tag which hung from their keychains, however under the new regulations an implantable, glass encapsulated RFID tag from VeriChip must be injected into the bicep to gain access ... although the company does not require the microchips be implanted to maintain employment.'"
And then there is the whole magic marker circumvention method that is soon to be discovered (possibly within this thread).
Oh wait...
FTA: Ironically, the extra security sought may be offset by a recent discovery of Jonathan Westhues, where the security researcher showed the VeriChip can be skimmed and cloned, duplicating an implant's authentication.
Yeah... I can't wait for the Diebold spin on this story.
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Aw, hell no.
It might actually double the victim's bicep circumference.
So much for Evil Guy yanking out an eye or cutting off a hand so that he can fake access. Now he has to take the whole arm...
Seriously, if he wants in that bad I'd rather he just beat me up and take my keys.
Moderating "-1, Disagree" is simple censorship. Have the guts to post your opinion.
I'm approaching two dozen RFID chips in my biceps, and let me tell you -- the chicks dig it!
The joke's on them. Geeks don't HAVE biceps.
" must be injected into the bicep"
I think most slashdotters will have a problem there.
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showed the VeriChip can be skimmed and cloned, duplicating an implant's authentication.
To say nothing of employee's arms being taken and used to gain access. Just need to have a large plastic bags to put the body part in to keep it from leaking all over the hacker. Gives a whole new meaning to the term hacker.
I wonder if these are the same implants they use on dogs. If they are it's no wonder they are insecure. And I don't see how this improves security much if any. It would be better to have a two man rule enforced by the access system, using two factor authentication, and have cameras monitoring the access into the cages. Securing a data center is not that difficult. It can be costly.
One last thought, what does the company do if those implanted leave or are fired? Pay out the insurance premium for dismemberment when they remove the arm of the employee? I guess you know you are being fired when the security guard shows up at your desk with a box for your stuff and a hacksaw to revoke your access.
Kevin Warwick is a cunt. If I put a TV in the oven, am I a Transovenist?
They won't require you to implant the chip to keep your job. But how long can you keep your job if you can't access the datacenter?
Depends on how good you are at hacking the datacenters firewall so you can get in to do your work.
That was supposed to read, FTA: Ironically, the extra security sought may be offset by a recent discovery of Captain Obvious, where the security researcher showed the VeriChip can be skimmed and cloned, duplicating an implant's authentication.
Seriously, which genius thought putting a remotely readable barcode in an employees arm was ever going to be secure? Must the IT world really repeat the mistakes of the 80's garage door opener industry??
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So are you entering passwords or making phone calls with your mouse? I wasn't clear on that point.
Did you check the article IDs? Each article admitted to /. is required to have an attached ID.
Jafafa's Law: Anyone who tries through reflexive and thoughtless exclamation to inhibit the very valid practice of comparing for the purpose of gaining perspective a behavior to known extremes is a fucking putz.
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And anyone who requires access to the datacenter to do their job, such as operators and sysadmins, cannot DO their job unless they get the implant. And if they cannot do the job, how are they expected to maintain employment?
They have no problem to do their job without physical access, they installed telnet on all the servers.
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Many years ago I found myself in a turf war with the 'operators' who looked after our mainframe .... in their view system programmers weren't allowed to touch the hardware ... anyway as a response we instituted a physical penetration analysis of the machine room .... the number of different ways in we found was in the mid teens - some involved children (or small adults) climbing thru ducts or thru the windows we gave people their printouts through, others involved finding ways in under the false floor (there were several) - but the one that took the cake was when we noticed that all the hinges on each and every door to the room was on the outside ... anyone could show up at any time and steal the doors
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Obviously don't want geeks. No self respecting geek would have biceps!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Paranoid? Not until you do all of your computing inside a Faraday cage. Until then, you're just a TEMPEST in a teapot.
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You forgot about the "guy that owns this company knows the guy at the RFID tracking system company"
angle entirely.
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Who needs a religious grounds? I object on the basis of you being fscking insane to wanna stick me with a computer chip. You nutcase... can I keep working here without being poked? No, alright fsck you i'm outta here
I just calculated it.
Since w is 01110111 in binary and you add up the ones you get 6, www = 666
At least i'm safe on bittorrent
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I find your problem troubling. So that the /. community may be of assistance out please post pictures of your wife's breasts. Pictures of both are needed since one will the control. Posting them on USENET is cool too. =)
And you think so 3-dimensional. I'll take a hypercube...
You gotta be careful with those. You think refolding a roadmap is tricky...
I refolded my hypercube in the wrong order and ended up in Poughkeepsie in 1878. That was embarrassing.
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