Sunday, March 18, 2007

Researchers speak

Watch it on YouTube -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPkzFETzueQ

"Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-enabled Credit Cards" by resarchers from UMass, RSA Laboratories, Innealta in October 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/business/20061023_CARD/fc2007-submission.pdf
"experiments found several surprising vulnerabilities in every system we examined"

Even the New York Times is worried -
"Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/business/23card.html?ex=1319256000&en=76401b1601fc06e3&ei=5090

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