The Trouble with RFID
In increasing frequency, security experts and computer scientists across the globe are raising concerns about RFID. As many of these legal hackers have pointed out, the technology is being implemented faster than problems are being addressed. In the past few months Wired magazine published several articles in which technology savvy citizens showed how they were able to steal information from RFID key cards, body implants, and even the new RFID enabled passports. Once obtained, this information could be used to forge said cards, implants and passports or attack the carrier. The worrisome aspect of these crimes is that, unlike traditional methods, the RFID criminal does not have to actually have any physical contact with the victim. Information can be stolen or accessed simply coming close to an RFID reader (maybe hidden in the criminal’s palm and connected to a laptop computer in his or her backpack or covertly installed in a doorway).
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