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Saffy:
--- Quote from: dxmedia on February 01, 2010, 19:21:58 ---
So that card which has all your details on has just been read by the person who walked past you in the street.
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if the concepts in the book 'little brother' by Cory Doctorow *spit* (sorry ex-bigboss) hold water then RFIDs can be remotely cloned, erased and re-coded with someone elses data in the 'walking passed' scenario. In the book the freedom activists swap the RFIDs of devices so that many people would be flagged to the homeland security as having suspicious out of the norm movements in an effort to null the system with many false positives.
dxmedia:
1 single positive crack key will cause the whole lot to tumble.
Saying that, .gov will have left a full copy of the database on an unencrypted dvd on a train anyway.
Might have a look out for that book sounds like a good read?
Saffy:
--- Quote from: dxmedia on February 01, 2010, 22:40:59 ---1 single positive crack key will cause the whole lot to tumble.
Saying that, .gov will have left a full copy of the database on an unencrypted dvd on a train anyway.
Might have a look out for that book sounds like a good read?
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its a ...erm... fiction young adult book (teen!), but anyway its still readable and not far fetched and set in the near future . It is more of a guidebook to protecting freedom and our privacy, urge us to not except things as secure because we are told they are but to scrutinise security systems ourselves and seek out any potential weaknesses.
dxmedia:
Bit like that handbook which is being used in government at the moment then,
What's it called?
1984?
sMUDge:
In 1984 they use a speech system "newspeak", see how close that it to the way the "youngsters" Text each other, virtually identical :-k
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