CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security

mathfeel passes along a video in which Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security. "Texas Instruments comes on [a scheduled conference call] along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They [Mythbusters producers] were way, way outgunned and they [lawyers] absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it."

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[globaljustin]

Parent is a troll and makes a pointless argument (btw...make up your mind, is he over-qualified or under-qualified?)

Who wouldn't want someone in office who knew about how law works. That's what they do...they are lawmakers. Maybe that's why Repub's selected an air-headed pageant queen ditz for VP...easier for the puppetmasters to control.

For every evil, coke-headed, nihilistic, self-serving lawyer out there, there's a hard-working, fair-minded lawyer who's looking to 'stick it' to the man and all the other sell-out lawyers.

Who do you think argues in favor of cases you support that went to the supreme court? Was it construction workers? Programmers? Nope...

There are good lawyers and bad lawyers.