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Apple Hacker Charlie Miller To Demo Dangers of Near-Field Communications
An anonymous reader writes "Apple's hacker nemesis Charlie Miller, who the company banned from its app store developer program, apparently hasn't been waiting around for his suspension to be lifted. His latest pet project is hacking near-field communications (NFC), and at Black Hat USA in Vegas this month, he will demonstrate the dangers of using your smartphone to pay your cab fare. (But when his Apple 'sentence' is up, look out)."
Whenever something is wireless there will always be a way to spoof or block it. All you have to do is provide it the right information and it will divulge all of it's information.
To me this is just common sense. If you want something to be less prone to this type of hacking? Don't use a wireless product in general...
tuck3r
He's one of the guys that proved Apple isn't so unhackable and "immune to viruses" after all. He does have a point that NFC technology is too new to know whether it's safe, and honestly, I'm glad someone like him is on the case to determine just how exploitable it is. I've already had my bank account cleaned out once because of a hack into a store's debit card system.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
So there I am standing at the gas station yesterday, and I catch a quick glimpse of one of those ad's on the TV screen offering to give you 5 cents off per gallon if you pay at the pump with NFC through your phone. I'm a bit amused by this as right next to it is a sign saying not to use your cell phone at the pump with a funny symbol of fire next to it. Curious as to the contrary suggestions, I look at the fine print of the NFC ad where it basically says "for your safety, you can only use this as a single pump" or basically trying to manage the risk by only using it briefly. This is somewhat funny as they can't seem to make up their mind as to whether is it safe, or isn't it?
Nowhere did the summary say Charlie Miller is hacking NFC in an Apple phone. In fact, nowhere in the summary does the string "expos" appear, so when you quote "exposing them", who are you quoting?
The summary said "Apple's hacker nemesis Charlie Miller". It's merely identifying Charlie Miller as a somewhat infamous Apple hacker. Any allusion to him hacking Apple devices in the summary is entirely the fault of people who are jumping to conclusions.
This would be like saying "Sony's hacker nemesis George Hotz is now showing how NFC can be dangerous".
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