Mythbusters RFID security epidose killed
08-30-2008, 08:50 PM
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Mythbusters RFID security epidose killed
http://consumerist.com/5043831/mythb...security-flaws
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws
Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID's security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and
Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage.
That's pretty fucked up. Now I really wanna know what credit card companies want to hide. :run:
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws
Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID's security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and
Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage.
''Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it.''
That's pretty fucked up. Now I really wanna know what credit card companies want to hide. :run:
08-30-2008, 09:12 PM
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RFID is very unsecure. There are some encryption algorithms for the data, but considering how small the chips are and the limited energy capacity on the tag they are very easy to hack/read. It is very hard to verify users when the main purpose of the tag is to "report" its information. I kinda wish the episode would be "leaked".
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08-30-2008, 10:14 PM
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RFID is very unsecure. There are some encryption algorithms for the data, but considering how small the chips are and the limited energy capacity on the tag they are very easy to hack/read. It is very hard to verify users when the main purpose of the tag is to "report" its information. I kinda wish the episode would be "leaked".
if someone steals your rfid card then it's a different story but it's the same if someone steals your credit card.
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I dunno what RFID is, but that sucks, mainly b/c it could be one less MB episode in the long run. If it would have helped people commit identity fraud, etc. though, I don't mind that much that it isn't going to be shown (not that it's going to make much difference in the end).
I wonder what happened with the episode they were supposed to show a couple weeks ago, about the internet vids (including car elevated by water hoses) as they didn't show it, it was a rerun, and now they're advertising that for next week.
I wonder what happened with the episode they were supposed to show a couple weeks ago, about the internet vids (including car elevated by water hoses) as they didn't show it, it was a rerun, and now they're advertising that for next week.