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RFID Personal Firewall

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-for-you dept.

JanMark writes "Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum and his student Melanie Rieback (who published the RFID virus paper in March) and 3 coauthors have now published a paper on a personal RFID firewall called the RFID Guardian. This device protects its owner from hostile RFID tags and scans in his or her vicinity, while letting friendly ones through. Their work has won the Best Paper award at the USENIX LISA Conference."

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  1. Popups. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, great. I can just imagine walking through the mall and then being bombarded by all these popups. "Would you like Macy's to be able to access your RFID tags? [Ok] [Cancel] [X] Always Allow"

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    1. Re:Popups. by chroot_james · · Score: 4, Funny

      What about "would you like Macy's to have no idea you're stealing their stuff? [yes][no][always][never]"

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  2. Condoms, anyone? by dotancohen · · Score: 2, Funny

    So these are little electronic rubbers, right?

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  3. derivative work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Now Linus Torvalds will write a personal RFID firewall and claim that it is totally original and not based on Andrew Tannembaum's personal RFID firewall... wooo BURN CITY take that groklaw losers!

    1. Re:derivative work by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny
      Now Linus Torvalds will write a personal RFID firewall and claim that it is totally original and not based on Andrew Tannembaum's personal RFID firewall... wooo BURN CITY take that groklaw losers!


      And will Tannenbaum back him up this time, too?

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  4. Tin foil by Rastignac · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's the only safe protection, for sure.

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    1. Re:Tin foil by hey! · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just don't forget to wire the tin foil to a six foot copper stake driven into the Earth. It's a detail that is often neglected by the careless.

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  5. Old News by Mike89 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is either old news, or there is some other reason the website looks like it's from 1996.

  6. But is she hot? by pestie · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, yeah, RFID, mark of the beast, firewall, virus, buzzword... whatever! This is Slashdot, and the important question is whether or not this Melanie Rieback chick is hot. 'Cause everyone knows that hot geek girls are the wet dream of every red-blooded male Slashdotter. And thanks to the magic that is Google, the answer appears to be, "Not bad... not bad at all!"

  7. Re:Demo Video by FinMacCool · · Score: 2, Funny

    Should we trust this guy to protect our RFID chips when he can't seem to protect his underwear by zipping his fly?