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Feds At DefCon Alarmed After RFIDs Scanned
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 $50, the common, average person can put [a portable RFID-reading kit] together,' said security expert Brian Marcus, one of the people behind the RFID webcam project. 'This is why we're so adamant about making people aware this is very dangerous.'"
The Feds are later seen picking up the pieces of the smashed SD card for 'forensic analysis'.
screw moral character.
don't you watch tv - give up the blank card keeping the real data somewhere else.
liqbase
In fact, there are many things that are happening now which makes me think: "Are they doing this on purpose? Or are they retarded?"
Definitely retarded (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor).
The only way that happens is if you are rich and have political connections.
That's not entirely true - if you're a bodyguard of a rich (important) person, you can legally protect them too.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
I love acronyms. :) My mind read your first sentence as, "I was charged with writing [Piece of Shit] software where I work." "Point of Sale" is only a secondary parsing of that acronym for my language framework. ;)
Down with the career politician! SUPPORT TERM LIMITS
They're faithfully participating in a system which is institutionally insane
There, fixed that for ya.
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Ah, nice. ESR is the perfect argument against an armed citizenry.
Every time some 12 year old posts "IMA KIL U U FAT FCK I AMA IRANYAN NINJA U NEVAR C ME CUMING!!!!1!!" on his blog, he craps his pants, buys another .45 extension for his shrinking penis, and gets another entry in his FBI "whackjob time waster" file.
Personally I think the entire "ESR" persona is the intartube's longest running piece of performance art, but it appears that some of his followers:
1) Actually believe that he's real and someone to be emulated...
2) Are armed.
Which is quite a worrying combination.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
I find it peculiar that they were willing to participate in criminal activity but could not bring themselves to spell the word "FUCKING".
"We shall grapple with the ineffable, and see if we may not eff it after all." - Douglas Adams
That analogy was so bad I had to check your username!
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Provide a link or it didn't happen.
Wait ten minutes and then check Wikipedia ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
No, I write software for EVE Online, don't you know? I'm talking about POS, as in the station.
"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
Well, if you are in a need of a pipe bomb, you can always stick together a pipe and a fork bomb (using Perl, of course).
Ezekiel 23:20
Actually it's because the same rules apply to them as apply to the rest of us.
Ha ha ha ha. Very funny.
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