Five days ago, a Missouri law enforcement agency's confidential report about the so-called "Modern Militia Movement" inspired me to publish a post, Yikes, I Might Be Part of the Militia Movement! (Third Update). ...
It appears I removed the political bumper stickers from my car just in time -- that is, before the Missouri Information Analysis Center issued to members of the Missouri law enforcement community what one writer...
A bill introduced in the Nevada State legislature would criminalize the capture of a person's identifying information through RFID (radio-frequency ID technology). This would only apply to individuals, which would...
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Kevin Warwick is the world’s first cyborg. The English scientist says that it’s time for us to overcome our human “limitations”. In the future and thanks to chip in our brains we will be able to use more...
created by DorisObermair | 41 wks ago | updated 41 wks ago 5417 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Sydney's commuters have been getting double-charged by the faulty RFID-based toll system that operates on the Harbour Bridge.This was a big concern when teh Golden Gate Bridge began using the Fastrac system."A...
created by jordan | 51 wks ago | updated 48 wks ago 1395 views | 2 recommendations | 22 comments
"The Awarepoint Real-time Awareness Solution utilizes a patented asset and location tracking technology developed exclusively for healthcare. The RFID “plug and track” network signal sensor pick-ups that plug...
" " Remember when RFID was the next big thing? When the world couldn't wait to have their luggage easily tracked at every airport? And when supply chain managers were all set to kick back and let these little tags do all the dirty work? Outside of a few exceptions, the...
RFID based cards, such as London's Oyster Card, are known to be unsecure and were easily cracked eight months ago. Well, a group of Dutch researchers decided to release a paper on how the Oyster hack worked and...
created by Jason Sanders | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 843 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
RFID tags are radio frequency identification tags, which are sometimes referred to on the Web as "ARPHIDs." If you are a citizen of the USA, you either have one of these in your passport now, or you will have one in your new passport. In Europe (sorry, not sure about Canada)...
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Radio Frequency ID (RFID, which could also stand for "Really F***ing Insecure, Dude) is all the rage with credit card companies, though they have not done much of anything to actually make them secure. The video...
created by jordan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 229 views | 3 recommendations | 1 comment
More than 16 million RFID chips will be embedded in the bodies — I mean, tickets — of Olympic fans in Beijing this summer. Crazy that they'll be able to scan them from more than five metres away, no? I wonder...
Imagine a time in the near future when you enter a mall for a day of shopping. As you enter that mall, a tiny RFID scanner near the entrance captures the pulse from the hidden RFID tag sewn into the jacket...
created by jwsbeverly | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 331 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Embedded RFID MiFare Classic RFID chip. The ability to read and replace information stored on a card people carry to expidite transactions, access control, and other "secure" exchanges of sensitive information is...
Oh, dear."OysterCard, the smartcard used by the London Underground, has been cracked.""Looks like lousy cryptography."RFID is proven unsafe: a great way to make one's purchase/ID information public, but not too...
created by jordan | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 299 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Cash is starting to look so much more attractive. Then again, aren't they also putting RFID in the currency now?"Even as RFID tech grows more and more ubiquitous, fears about its safety and security haven't dwindled -- which is why we're just disappointed, not...
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