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Real RFID Hacking Scenarios

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the rfid-underground dept.

kjh1 writes "Wired is running an article on RFID hacking that has potentially scary implications. Many RFID tags have no encryption and will happily transmit their information in the clear if they are active or within range of a reader. Worse yet is that they can be overwritten. Some interesting scenarios and experiments: snagging the code off of a security badge and replaying it to gain access to a secure building; vandalizing library contents by wiping or changing tags on books; changing the prices of items in a grocery or other store; and getting free gas by tweaking the ExxonMobil SpeedPass tags."

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  1. NOO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BoxTorrents is down WTF

  2. Beaners by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This happened in Austin, TX:

    *se habla espanol?

    *Get ready....................this is so good !

    I have a friend who is president of his homeowner's association. They
    are having a terrible problem with trash on the side of the road.The
    trash is thrown down by the Mexican work crews working on new homes in
    the area. (McDonald Bags, Burger King trash, etc). He has pleaded with
    the site supervisors and the general contractor to no avail, called the
    City,County, the Police and got no help. So....

    They organized about twenty folks, named themselves The "_I_nner
    _N_eighborhood _S_ervices" or INS..to go out at lunch time and "police"
    the trash themselves. They got some navy blue baseball caps and had the
    initials "INS" in gold put on the caps and just hoped the workers would
    think they were INS.

    The day after their first pick up detail, with them wearing their caps
    and carrying cameras; 46 out of 68, of the construction workers did not
    show up for work the next morning...and haven't come back for 10 days.

    The General Contractor is furious, but can't say anything publicly or he
    could be busted for hiring "illegal aliens". This friend and his
    neighbors can't be accused of impersonating INS folks, because they have
    it on their home owner association records the vote to form the new
    committee within their association, plus they informed the INS about
    what they were doing in advance, and the INS said
    basically........."have at it"!

    Good ol' YANKEE INGENUITY TRIUMPHS AGAIN!