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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."
There are things that sometimes just don't need to be divulged so that every blow joe doesn't decide to run around trying it. An example is that I have figured out a few ways talking with some other IT professionals on how to successfully use someone's credit card without their consent or without triggering the companies themselves and I have decided to keep those revelations to myself so that it is not exploited by every script kiddie and wannabe hackers to try.
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That's what a password does, it gives one security by obscurity. Dumbasses !! You slashdot lemmings would fuck yourselves in the ass if some buttwipe said you should.