Two Historic RFID Regulation Bills—Important to Our Privacy and Safety--Await Governor Schwarzenegger’s Decision
Zack-Kaldveer.gif By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California Tiny computer chips called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) ... and other government issued cards without our knowledge. These “human identification systems” pose clear information security risks that can threaten individual privacy and public safety. RFID chips allow [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 12:06:05
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Nissan Helps Develop A Smart-Key Phone: Unlock and Start Your Car With A Call
I’m a bit of a futurist; I like to speculate about new technologies ... print full sized A4 paper from your phone via an extendable arm and you’ll be able to project high quality video onto a wall via a mini projector. Maybe eventually we’ll have credit card swipes or RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 18:08:31
New State House Security Still Offline
We’ll admit it’s rare when a stuffed animal uncovers major breaking news, but such is the case with “Mr. Mouse,” who was dispatched to the S.C ... , what? State House employees were issued their RFID’s (Radio Frequency ID cards) back in the spring [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 13:39:41
Advertisers kill Mythbusters spy-chip story
p2pnet news view Cool | Advertising:- “Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities,” says a Boing Boing headline ... out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is,” suggests the text, in turn linking ... outgunned …’ In the video, “We were gonna do RFID and on several levels how hackable, how [more...]
Date: 2008-09-01 13:32:04
All Identity Is Divided Into Three Parts
In May of 2007, I discovered that Chinese, unlike English, ... these aspects I1, I2 and I3. Examples of I1 entities include phone numbers, domain names, RFID tags, SIM cards ... entities which includes accounts, the corporate seal, stock certificates, and so on. Speaking [more...]
Date: 2008-08-01 16:47:36
Headline News - September 5, 2008
Get Rich Slowly: Credit Card Basics: Five Essential Skills for Mastering Plastic Official Obopay blog: ... plastic cash? Thailand: Financial transactions can be done via mobile phone CreditCards.com: Consumer Reports rates the best and worst of credit cards The Upcoming Technology of RFID For Contactless Access [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 13:52:58
Intel's Touchscreen Cash Register
This interesting cash register concept is unlike any others. Its "touchscreen works in concert with RFID cards and salespeople -- idea is to take the internet's ability to 'up-sell' and apply that to everyday impulse buying." Click here for one more picture [more...]
Date: 2009-01-10 00:02:00
ID Cards Don’t Work
The Guardian:Brandishing an example of the baby pink and pale blue polycarbonate document, Jacqui Smith promised it would combat identity theft, ... Security Center Partners with Davis + Henderson to Offer Card Patr…NY state inserts RFIDs into licenses [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 14:27:53
Who is Number One?
Patrick McGoohan has died. Star, writer, director, creative genius behind the TV show “The Prisoner”, which combined cold-war paranoia, ... , as government store our emails, our web searches, our IM chats, tracks us by Oyster Card and RFID [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 23:50:59
Links for 8th August 2008
Stross on the difference between US and UK sf; emergent AI in canine form; ePassports hacked like a cheap padlock; ... his own software, a publicly available programming code, a £40 card reader and two £10 RFID chips ... Can and Will Be Hacked. Tagged with: UK • passport • cloning • identity • theft • RFID • hack • cryptography • biometric [more...]
Date: 2008-08-09 00:00:22
Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #235
D-Day for RFID-based transit card systems Want to ride the subway for free without having to jump the turnstiles? ... is showing the VitOL project, a technological platform for the realization of logistical information ... out of the equation When people working on a project get together [more...]
Date: 2008-10-12 10:23:32
Linkdump 26
How to develop a dedicated landing page for Twitter visitors The TED 2009 speaker lineup and if you’re lucky there’s even an independently organized TED event near you Tasmanian devils at risk as experiment fails RFID-enabled poker table that knows every card in the deck Top Gear radio control car football set Clean up your movies before [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 02:06:27
Hardware Hack, Mac Book Air Super Drive on any Computer
Tnkgrl has come up with a totally awesome hack that is totally accomplishable by anyone with a bit of patience, ... , Use Your Overheating Gadgets Instead (2) Wi-Fi Predator, a DIY Long-range Wi-Fi Snooper ... (0) Video: How to Remove an RFID Chip From a Card (0) [more...]
Date: 2008-06-25 00:30:01
Concept: Motorola Sparrow
Motorola, world’s leading cell phone manufacturer, has come up with a new concept of Motorola Sparrow, ... -functional handset: mobile point-of-service device, credit card reader, scanner, RFID (Radio-frequency identification) reader and, of course, a mobile phone. Similar Posts:Motorola Releases Q9e Motorola [more...]
Date: 2008-08-09 17:28:11
Insecure by design
Despite the availability of robust and secure solutions, organizations persist in implementing insecure design in a bid to save on cost ... Nate Lawson was concerned about the privacy implications of the popular RFID-based FasTrak toll tags ... of the card is kept in backend servers, this in fact exacerbates the plight of victims. Hackers [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 09:00:36
TechEd 08 - see you there - RFID and Workflows....
Register - here Folks I hope you're heading to TechEd this year - it's a brand new breed! Why....???? ... RFID interactive capabilities. rfidtag Sample card TechEd tag It all started ... Because myself and my team are covering the entire event with RFID tags, we'll give you tags [more...]
Date: 2008-08-08 09:48:29
Practice Observed: Secure Improvisations
Improvisation enacted to overcome a secured door that is probably the most often used in the studio, ... ..) A stapler used to keep a door open helps one poor sould evades the secure RFID lock. Likely, their secure card was left on their desk or some such and the stapler provides them a momentary work-around [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 17:01:28
Practice Observed: Secure Improvisations
Improvisation enacted to overcome a secured door that is probably the most often used in the studio, ... ..) A stapler used to keep a door open helps one poor sould evades the secure RFID lock. Likely, their secure card was left on their desk or some such and the stapler provides them a momentary work-around [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 17:01:28
Sony offers modules to its FeliCa RFID technology
Sony+offers+modules+to+its+FeliCa+RFID+technology Mainly used in Japanese mobile phones or Transportation cards (JR Suica for example), anyway the needs for RFID solution is pretty high lately and in order to please its customers, Sony announced 2 new more module to its FeliCa line-up with the FeliCa Plug (RC-S801) which [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 06:06:29
Money: the root of all evil
Money is indeed the root of all evil! It can corrupt the best of us ... ://eutilitariancommons.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/the-impotent-politician/ RFIDs in passports and I.D. cards are one step ... to Revelation’s ‘Mark of the Beast’ - when nobody will be able to buy or sell without the RFID chip [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 20:40:27
Motorola Sparrow: This Device Could Change Retail
The Motorola Sparrow is the newest and coolest thing in retail store marketing. The Motorola Sparrow is a very small device with a display that excepts credit cards, detects RFID, is WiFi ready, is capable of storing data, pictures etc, and can’t wait to be taken advantage [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 07:49:22
Transparent Transistors to Bring Future Displays
Transparent Transistors to Bring Future DisplaysResearchers claim to have created the first prototype of a new design for semiconductors, ... for RFID tags, electronic bar codes and smart credit cards, which resemble ordinary credit cards ... , as well as flexible, while maintaining high performance levels," Marks said. "This opens the door [more...]
Date: 2007-07-11 12:40:00
Turnstile terror
Turnstiles at Peel metro As students were forced into the new Opus smart card system when their reduced-fare passes ... . Instead of reading miniature punch cards, they’re scanning RFIDs. Instead of a welcoming two-tone [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 09:13:53
News 2008.07.21 Late Edition
iSuppli Webinar Reveals Truth About MEMS Just how fast is the MEMS industry really growing? ... Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) introduced a 13-W Power over Ethernet (PoE) powered device controller ... , including IP phones, IP security cameras, wireless access points, security card readers and RFID scanners [more...]
Date: 2008-07-21 23:24:53
The Future of Money
RCA: The Future of Money @ Core77 via Beyond the Beyond ... or to buy illegal services and goods. In third world countries ATM cash-machines are rarely available ... or RFID cards is a very engineered and raw-data driven transaction, the experience and the process [more...]
Date: 2008-08-29 19:14:07
“Anatomy of a Subway Hack” exposes major flaws in Boston subway system, published online despite lawsuit
Hack a Day, “Defcon 16: MIT Boston transit presentation gagged” , , and ... by finding unlocked, back door routes into the subway, spoofing magnetic and RFID cards, and attacking ... school newspaper, The Tech, has published a PDF of the slides online. The research culminated in the trio [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 22:53:50
RFID Poker Table
This RFID Poker Table one hell of a cool project. You can now play your Sunday night poker game and invite spectators to watch on a big screen ... with a standard deck of KEM cards that have been tagged with 52 RFID ’smart labels’ - thin and flexible ... next is integration of RFID chips! "The inspiringly-named Video Poker Table makes this possible [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 12:43:48
[Dbworld] [CFP] UC-Sec 09 Call for Paper
From: “Deok Gyu Lee” <deokgyulee at sersc.org> ... in the use of smart cards and RFID systems - Role of RFID, sensors and biometrics to enable security [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 07:53:45
Links for 2008-06-10
poetpainter: ‘Inspiration from The Edge’ Presentation Stephen P ... ) SeeShell @ ::setbang:: johanna brewer “ … an augmented Oyster Card (the RFID-enabled Underground ticket) holder which displays, over time, the journeys a rider has taken … “ (tags: RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-06-10 06:31:59
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws
This is our 6,000th post on Wilson's Blogmanac. Thanks to Baz le Tuff for tipping me off about this story about RFID, ... before. The IDTechEx report Active RFID predicts that sales of active RFID systems, including tags ... s boom times ahead Sales of technologies based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, the automatic [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:45:34
DIY Video Poker Table
Know When to Hold 'Em: courtesy Jason Kiely Every Friday night, about 10 regulars gather at my place in Perth, Australia, to play Texas Hold 'Em. I'm the co-founder of a technology-services company, L7 Solutions. I'm also a chronic tinkerer ... combines the video files with RFID data from the tagged chips and cards to create a simulcast [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 18:49:00
ChargePoint Public Charging Stations for Electric Vehicles
Until you sit down and really think about it, ... works based on an RFID card that the user waves near the receiver on the Smartlet’s screen ... . The technology is there and ready for use, so now it’ [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 03:15:05
CONSUMER WATCH (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
How much info's on your RFID cards? It can happen undetected in an instant ... with a compatible reader device can skim information about you that's stored on the chip-embedded credit cards [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 05:20:51
Why am I not surprised?
Most of you will be aware of the 3,000 blank Passports that were stolen last week (see here for the BBC News account) ... software, a publicly available programming code, a £40 card reader and two £10 RFID chips, Mr van Beek [more...]
Date: 2008-08-09 08:08:00
Infinite Brings Thin-Film Batteries Closer to Mass Market
Venture capitalists seemed to be taking a break from battery funding last month, ... it is targeting makers of wireless sensors, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, smart cards, medical [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 05:00:05
Top Posts Of The Week [MythBusters]
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws This Apology Letter From Southwest Is Refreshingly Honest And Informative What To Do When A Store Sells You Box [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 20:35:00
Realistic V12 Engine in Origami
This origami V12 engine took approximately two years to design and, one would presume, build ... Bah, Use Your Overheating Gadgets Instead (3) Wi-Fi Predator, a DIY Long-range Wi-Fi Snooper ... (0) Video: How to Remove an RFID Chip From a Card (0) [more...]
Date: 2008-07-01 04:01:04
Electronic products
Electronic products Published on August 21st, 2008 by admin Quality electronic components are vital for electronic equipments to work efficiently ... . Electronic components, RFID, Security solutions, Cards, & services are its main business units [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 17:51:31
God Made D.I.R.T.
God Made D.I.R.T. October 1st, 2008 Do I have to tell y’all that ‘Da Incredible Rap Team’ hit stores yesterday? ... do the right thing and start releasing new CD’s on an illuminati chip. That’s the national RFID card being [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 17:42:06
DOCOMO Announces Mobile Phone with Built-in Intelligent Key
docomo_key.jpg From here onwards, keitai or Japanese phones can boast of having not only FeliCa cards using RFID technology, ... comes into range. It also lets drivers start (or stop) the engine even without inserting the key [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 06:10:38
Reading RFID tags - Adam Laurie's RFIDIOt and the CardMan 5321 USB reader
As I noted in my last post, Improvised RFID Blocking Wallets: Preventing PayPass Skimming, I have recently been working with an OmniKey Cardman 5321 USB RFID reader in Windows. The reader is compatible with a broad range of RFID cards (From Omnikey's website):Philips/NXP: MIFARE®, DESFire [more...]
Date: 2008-11-27 01:00:00
Bicycle Blog Roundup, 11/11/08
Yes, by the way, starting with last week, I’ve dropped the “news media” part of the roundup, and just focused on blogs. Yay! Tech-Enabled Bike Sharing Rolls Into North America, The Huffington Post Now RFID (radio frequency identification) tags and Smart Card payment systems have created a third generation of bike share [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 20:24:41
RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need
RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need Radio Frequency Identification tags are everywhere. Inside these tiny tags is a predetermined code which can be read by an RFID reader. These are used in credit cards, badges, pet tracking just to name a few. Some people feel they create too muc… [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 02:23:22
Video: RFID Enabled Poker Table
So you’ve probably seen Poker events on television where there are cameras on the table to see what each person player is holding and at the same ... at your own home? Recently, an IT exec designed a table which utilizes Radio Frequency ID (RFID) technology whereby a computer can track what cards are in each players hands, calculate the probability [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 18:00:45
MIT students to help Boston secure its subway fare system
MBTA and students it sued will work together to fix weaknesses in Boston's subway fare collection system now that lawsuit against the students over their RFID card hacking research has been dropped. More... [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 22:24:29
links for 2008-08-31 (delicious broke, fixed themselves, so this is several days’ links)
2008 September 1 Links TECHNOLOGY WAR/CORPORATIONS/CENSORSIHP: Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities Nice to know that our “capitalist” system involves lawyers ensuring that the public has no clue that RFID is very insecure [more...]
Date: 2008-09-01 06:01:11
Global News Update: Tuesday, October 7, 2008
In today's podcast: AMD to spin off chip fabs; SAP and Oracle fail to agree over TomorrowNow; ... and public transit RFID card security flaw details published. read more Add to digg Add to StumbleUpon Add to Twitter Add to Slashdot [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 18:39:44
Sheetz, Wright Express Launch NFC Pilot to Field Test Mobile Payments with Fleet Vehicle Drivers
ViVOtech Enables First Real-Time Card e.Wallet for Mobile Phones South Portland, ME ... now and have been accepting contactless chip cards, using RFID technology for payments at the pump and in-store. ViVOtech [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 16:27:00
Intel Cash Register Knows Who You Are, What You Want
By Andrew Blum Asking the question: “Do you know who I am? ... , baiting you with ads and promotions. Flash an RFID store loyalty card, and your purchase history pops up — [more...]
Date: 2009-01-09 21:17:11
Free biometric time and attendance software
Is your organization still using the old time clock to track employee’s attendance? ... Finger Print Devices - scans the fingerprint of the employee Proximity Card Reader (RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-11-23 12:22:08
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