Hacking the T: MBTA sues to keep MIT students from telling how they cracked the CharlieCard
UPDATE: The MBTA won a temporary restraining order that will keep the students from discussing their findings. Read the judge's order (in PDF) ... : Breaking Crypto RFID's and Magstripes of Ticketing Systems: In this talk we go over weaknesses in common subway fare collection systems. We focus on the Boston T subway, and show how we reverse engineered [more...]
Date: 2008-08-09 14:32:40
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That's About As Useful as a Solar Powered Flashlight
When you think about it, a solar-powered flashlight isn't such a bad idea ... 2007 Get Landscape Lit Up with Solar Powered Faux Brick Edging! - 18 October 2007 Solar powered RFID tracking system can play a crucial role in developing countries - 21 November 2007 Contents of this feed [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 09:29:43
Local Library uses RFID to Manage Materials, but Privacy Concerns Abound
Continuing the theme of privacy issues related to my new home library system ( ... Public Library is using RFID chips to help manage their collection. By including bibliographic data in the microchip, the library can automate circulation functions: books can simply be passed by an RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-07-20 19:46:34
Buzz Out Loud 840: A box of evil
Hey, this sounds like a good idea! Create an artificial intelligence that's the incarnation of pure evil and immorality ... -powered SUV’s http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=134227 Ford offers RFID system [more...]
Date: 2008-10-28 18:58:00
St. Louis Beacon: Public Libraries
Free for all: Public libraries are a treasure trove, especially during economic tough times Written by Kathie Sutin, ... branches use RFID, a radio frequency identification system. “That’s the higher tech means of counting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 21:17:37
CFP Special Issues, Workshops and Conferences
Straight from my inbox, a few academic events to keep an eye on: Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies in Everyday Life ... players, vending machines, contact-less payment systems and RFID-enabled turnstiles are de rigueur [more...]
Date: 2008-07-09 03:42:03
Buyer Beware: Clothing You Buy May Inform On You
technology to shadow customers and record their every move Management strategists are touting a miraculous new computer system that promises to ... radio frequency identification, or RFID, a 21st-century digital marvel that involves a grain-sized ... , packaged, sold or shipped. A new believer in RFID technology is Italian clothier Benetton Group [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 13:10:26
RFID Keeps Police Operations Safe And Secure
RFID Keeps Police Operations Safe And Secure In April of 2008 Prince William County in Virginia implemented the Compass system to provide increased ... Retail Pilot Quantifies RFID's Many Benefits more... ... Ordering With RFID ILR® Brings Visibility To Container Flow For Volkswagen Elby Gifts: The Gift of Giving [more...]
Date: 2008-11-14 16:18:26
Ski Season Is Here!! Great Time for Using ICE
Whether you are going downhill on skis, boards or any winter sport or you are managing a ski resort operation, using ICE has never made more sense! ... passes. You can even integrate ICE into your ski pass system using 2D Barcodes or RFID and scanners [more...]
Date: 2008-12-31 12:13:00
VeriChip Corporation Selected by Microsoft to Offer Personal Health Record through Microsoft HealthVault
Market Watch | VeriChip Corporation, a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for healthcare and patient-related needs, today announced that its personal health record used in conjunction with its VeriMed Health Link system will be accessible through Microsoft [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 20:47:00
RFID mashups in the library - Thinkering Spaces (via Shifted Librarian)
Jenny Levine has a good story about innovative uses of RFID in libraries from the Thinkering Spaces project: RFID is a big component of the system, as it identifies content and allows it to travel with an object. To start, the TS folks put a book with an RFID chip on the reader, which triggers a process [more...]
Date: 2008-06-20 13:12:40
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
Bartronics India inks pact with Govt. of Rajasthan
Bartronics India has signed an agreement with the government of Rajasthan signifying commencement of the Bhamashah project from July 01, 2008. The company offers labeling technology to the AIDC industry with conventional barcode labels and RFID smart labels. The POS system finds application in retail outlets like super markets [more...]
Date: 2008-07-02 07:31:00
VeriChip Receives Notice Of Removal From Nasdaq
Some will view this as a victory against the selling and marketing of human implantable chips ... ”) (NASDAQ: CHIP), a provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for healthcare [more...]
Date: 2008-10-27 09:40:07
InfoLogix Launches HealthTrax 2.0 to Help Hospitals Automate Time-Consuming Asset and Patient Tracking
#fullpost{display:inline;} InfoLogix, Inc. , a leading technology provider of enterprise mobility and advanced wireless asset tracking solutions for ... network of small RFID transmitter tags, HealthTrax 2.0 pinpoints the location of specific assets ... draws upon sophisticated Real-Time Location System (RTLS) and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 01:58:00
Sonic's Sonolator processing systems offer a wide range of benefits including Reduced Processing Time
Sonic's Sonolator processing systems offer a wide range of.. ... Sulfide Oxidation System PRINTRONIX SL4M MP2 RFID Printer Mobile Vacuum Conveyors ... together to deliver world-changing products. The next time you develop a new material, consider how [more...]
Date: 2008-12-29 05:02:11
Mondi Corrugated Packaging: "intelligent box"
Après la boîte intelligente Hide-Pack d’emballage Krupack, Mondi, le plus important fournisseur d’emballage en carton ondulé, ... Packaging has developed a process to add RFID labels to corrugated boxes to enable effective scanning ... -intensive tag application process by using a high-speed manufacturing system to add RFID labels [more...]
Date: 2008-12-12 03:25:00
“Banned” slides — The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto RFID’s and Magstripes of Ticketing Systems
Now this is an exciting DEFCON! I didn't go this year, but this talk was one of the ones I was eyeing! And it's gone total bonkers! ... L. Rivest, were planning to give a talk titled "The Anatomy of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto RFID's ... (PDF). WOW! The WarCart rules! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Digg this! [more...]
Date: 2008-08-10 01:35:00
Intermec Launches Partner Program
Everett, Washington-based Intermec, a supplier of RFID, mobile computing and data collection systems, has launched a new partner program ... that it believes maintain the highest level of technical adeptness with its printers. The firm said [more...]
Date: 2008-08-15 12:42:00
Plastic Pallets Gain Ground In an Eco-Conscious World
Source: www.ptonline.com Low-cost wood is still king, ... , automotive, and the U.S. Postal Service. The difficulty and cost of wood pallet disposal has always ... plastic pallet “pool” system has been launched. These RFID-enabled pallets play to plastics’ [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 21:10:50
Riopel and Benn Honored
CHL Press Release Toronto, ON – The Canadian Hockey League today announced that Nicola Riopel of the Moncton Wildcats is the ADT CHL Goaltender of ... , radio frequency identification (RFID) and integrated systems. ADT's web site addresses [more...]
Date: 2008-10-29 22:46:24
Walgreens' DC Deploys RFID Without a Safety Net
Walgreens has fully integrated radio frequency identification (RFID) technology into its warehouse operations at the company's distribution facility in Anderson, S.C., according to RFID Update. Walgreens has been running the system since last year but only recently [more...]
Date: 2008-09-19 15:00:00
SkyeTek Offers Web-based RFID Software Platform
SkyeTek Offers Web-based RFID Software Platform The company's MetaFi suite of hosted applications allows manufacturers to track high-value products ... Sensors Zero In on Crime Thirty communities use the ShotSpotter system to identify and locate gunfire ... › ADT Expects RFID Will Reduce False Alarms for Home Security › RFID News [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 23:11:10
Early Voting Opens in Florida
October 21, 2008 — Tami Get out there and VOTE people! Early voting began yesterday and will continue the next two weeks ... - MiamiHe…West Palm Beach Public Library to Install 3M RFID Systems To Boost Producti… [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 06:58:11
RadarFind CMO to Speak at NCBA Symposium
As part of the NC Biomedical Association Symposium, Dr ... sessions on RFID and RTLS and their applications for biomedical and clinical engineering. Managing Equipment with RFID and RTLS (Real Time Location Systems) A comprehensive overview of the distinctions [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 15:51:03
Q&A with Oracle's John Bermudez: Guard Against Hidden Outsourcing Costs
INFORMATION INDEPTH NEWSLETTERSLean Supply Chain EditionDecember 2008 NEWS SECTION Q&A with Oracle's John Bermudez: ... Systems to Deliver Integration of RFID Data with E-Business Suite The Warehouse Management blog ... Solution and RFID LEARN MORE Supply Chain Makeover [more...]
Date: 2008-12-08 12:30:00
Ship2Save to feature best in breed RFID hardware at its newly renovated testing facility
State of the art testing facility will showcase RFID readers, printers, portals, conveyor systems, and other partner products to meet the growing demands of the RFID market. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 15:49:30
TIME’s Best Innovations Of 2008
TIME: From a genetic testing service to an invisibility cloak to an ingenious public bike system to the world’s first moving skyscraper — TIME’s ... with RFID tags so they’re easily trackable. The Memristor Scientists have known it was possible for 37 ... its history even when turned off. One possible application: a computer that flicks on instantly [more...]
Date: 2008-11-04 18:11:11
Response to JAMA article on RFID
rf-logo-finalwtag.jpg The RFID study mentioned in JAMA does not apply to the RTLS technology deployed by RadarFind ... ), you need a very powerful reader to energize/read the tags. To compare this to the RadarFind system ... the likely scenario of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) readers causing anomalous behavior in electronic [more...]
Date: 2008-07-03 23:03:58
GAO Offers 125kHz or 13.56MHz Dual Frequency (LF or HF) RFID Reader
Toronto, Canada - GAO RFID Inc. (www.GAORFID.com) recommends this simple- to- use Dual Frequency RFID Reader (GAO 211004), which operates at both 125kHz and 13.56MHz enabling the user to read a wider variety of RFID cards. This advanced RFID device is primarily used for access control, system logon/logoff [more...]
Date: 2008-11-19 13:55:33
Don’t Blink: BusRadio Comes and Goes in 72 hours
Things can move fast here in MoCo. So much to blog about this week. First off, BusRadio ... to the school district. The system also has GPS and RFID capabilities as well as a panic button [more...]
Date: 2008-12-14 23:16:00
RFID @ TechEd Wrap Up - "Breeze Event Tracker"
The system we built has made it through its maiden event and was still capturing reads well into the later afternoon (until we got round to tearing it down....technically called 'Bump Out'....with all the moving bodies and parts, it's no wonder they call it Bump Out!) [more...]
Date: 2008-09-11 12:23:59
D-Day for RFID-based transit card systems
Dutch scientific paper and German research provides enough information for someone to make fake transit cards by exploiting a vulnerability in RFID smart card technology. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 00:35:00
RFID and GPS tracking to revolutionise waste recycling across US
An innovative waste-tracking technology employing radio frequency ID (RFID) and global positioning system (GPS) technology developed by a Limerick firm is set to double community recycling rates [more...]
Date: 2008-09-29 05:00:00
Radiator 09: Exploits in the Wireless City
I’m bound for Nottingham later this week for the Raditor Festival and Symposium, ... will be networked in a complex system of information exchange. Based on technologies such as RFID (radio frequency identification tags), our environment would turn into a space of “ambient intelligence” [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 15:39:09
Tagged and tracked at the toll booth
Are you one of those folks who loves the convenience of zipping through the toll plaza with one of those electronic toll-paying systems like FasTrak ... toll devices use Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology to broadcast information ... booth can receive it. Strangers with the right transponder reader walking through a parking lot [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 19:20:38
Trends and drivers in medical technology
Through the course of researching advanced medical technologies and the markets and opportunities for them, ... : radiofrequency identification devices (RFID), computer-aided drug design, surgical simulation preoperative/planning systems, electronic medical records Drive for healthcare reform: this is the most nebulous [more...]
Date: 2008-12-10 17:03:44
Defcon: 'Subway Hack' talk gagged [News]
A presentation demonstrating major security weaknesses in the MiFare Classic-based CharlieCard RFID system has been gagged via court order this weekend. [more...]
Date: 2008-08-11 08:02:37
Secured Digital wins $1.76 million contract from New Alliance China - Computer Business Review
The contract is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2009. According to Secured Digital, its EyStar Warehouse Management System (EWMS) integrates bar code, radio frequency identification (RFID) and WiFi data collection to track inventory ... [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 05:33:42
Public Library to Install RFID Security System
Tagging of some 50,000 circulation items has begun, and installation is expected to be completed by the end of November. [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 20:17:00
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
MIT Students Hack Boston Charlie Cards
The Facebook generation makes hacking transit look easy ... of a Subway Hack: Breaking Crypto RFIDs & Magstripes of Ticketing Systems.” Now, the students [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 03:43:50
CYBRA Corporation’s EdgeMagic Replaces IBM RFID Software Solution at Shop-Vac
YONKERS, NY — (Marketwire) — 10/23/08 — CYBRA Corporation (OTCBB: CYRP), the developer of award-winning MarkMagic (TM) ... mobile readers, and Zebra RFID printers, the same hardware as WebSphere RFID Premises Server ... Bar Code Labels, RFID Tags, and Electronic Forms Software for IBM Power Systems (formerly known [more...]
Date: 2008-10-25 01:45:26
Senior Sales Engineer
Coselec Pte Ltd is the leading distributor for technologically advanced security & RFID products in the Asia Pacific region ... management and system integration is an added advantage - Highly motivated, disciplined and results [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 08:57:51
Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint
San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags ... barcoding and interrogators. We are really focused on the active RFID tagging area. Who are the typical [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 14:00:00
125kHz Low Frequency(LF) RFID Reader from GAO
These well-performing devices are designed for verifying code numbers of RFID transponders and are widely used for personnel identification, POS systems, security systems, and access systems. [more...]
Date: 2009-01-05 05:35:03
Protecting Privacy of Children, Rights of Parents Unfinished in California
By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California In 2005 a tiny school district in Northern California inadvertently ignited a statewide debate over the appropriate use of modern technologies in the school system. The technology in question was Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, which the district had embedded in student badges... [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 13:25:39
Painted on micro sensors
Tiny radios embedded in paint could be used to pick up sound, ... Systems, started exploring this technology based on radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in 2002, and filed patents in 2005. ‘People complain that most of the cost in manufacturing RFID tags [more...]
Date: 2008-12-09 08:10:11
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
Insecure by design
Would you design a system which you know is vulnerable to hacking? However, the fact is that secure systems do cost more than their non-secure ( ... an RFID-based cards used for prepaying highway tolls in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the barcode based system used by the National Library Board in Singapore. Both systems can be easily broken [more...]
Date: 2008-12-24 08:19:07
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