Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 6, 2009 @01:40AM from the oh-sure-now-you're-alarmed dept.

FourthAge writes "Federal agents at the Defcon 17 conference were shocked to discover that they had been caught in the sights of an RFID reader connected to a web camera. The reader sniffed data from RFID-enabled ID cards and other documents carried by attendees in pockets and backpacks. The 'security enhancing' RFID chips are now found in passports, official documents and ID cards. 'For $30 to $50, the common, average person can put [a portable RFID-reading kit] together,' said security expert Brian Marcus, one of the people behind the RFID webcam project. 'This is why we're so adamant about making people aware this is very dangerous.'"

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Re:Missing the point. by ObsessiveMathsFreak · 2009-08-06 03:32 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I think RFID is an awesome tech, it just has a risk for being abused.
You're wrong. RFID is an abusive technology, which has only a slight risk of being used in awesome ways.
We're talking about a technology that can wirelessly scan and tag objects and people. How stupid do you have to be to not see where this is going?

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