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Cellphone Could Crack RFID Tags

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the let-the-wardriving-begin dept.

diverge_s writes "Adi Shamir of RSA is at it again. This time pointing out flaws in RFID systems. From the article: 'I haven't tested all RFID tags, but we did test the biggest brand and it is totally unprotected,' Shamir said. Using this approach, 'a cellphone has all the ingredients you need to conduct an attack and compromise all the RFID tags in the vicinity.'"

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  1. RSA and Patents by putko · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's something on RSA and their patent: http://www.cyberlaw.com/rsa.html

    That's the work this guy is famous for.

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    http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/when_to_s tone_your_children/dt21_18a.html
  2. Re:Good thing by SubtleNuance · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Contrast Free trade, and the unhindered movement of capital with immigration law.

    The international plutocracy controls virtually every western nation (south america being my one shining hope..). They write the both the Domestic law (keeping out/keeping in their labour) and their ability to move their own capital as they see fit, unhinged in any way to the community (the labour) that built it (or operates or relies on it for survival).

    I'll be honest, this is standard socialist rhetoric. But its also true. The USA, with its international monopoly on violence for the last 60 years has seen that any non-poverty-stricken nature fall in line with its policy. And the USA is the most corrupt, plutocratic nation on earth. And that is also true.

    Now, the american audience on /. is going to become alarmed, maybe indignant to my assertion (that the USA is imperialist, and uses violence to maintain its hegemony), but I'll simply ask, how did the imbalance in the first paragraph arise without this being the case?

    Is it the Capital Classes simply want to be able to "help" people by moving their capital? But not allow the movement of people? Look at the USA's relationship with Mexico for instance. Free capital trade vs. Mexicans dying in the dessert.

    The USA plutocracy realizes that the Middle Class USA may finally catch on if they permit the labour market to be "free market" too. Free markets dont exist. Never have, never will. Markets are not natural, economics isnt a natural science. It is however a legal and social construct. And, those with the biggest guns set the rules.

    In short, this off-topic post isnt about RFID as much as it is about people being capital. Capital owned by the state. The barriers to the free movement of people is evidence that the international plutocracy likes it that way.