Edward Teach
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<b [/IMG]RFID: Radio Frequency Identification Technology
and its impact on privacy[/B]
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Another way to sacr[/IMG]OnStar[/B], wh[/IMG]pay[/IMG]Toll Road RFID Tags[/B][/url] and license plate scanners to be a threat to privacy, anonymity and individual liberty. Unfortunately, the courts have ruled that there can be no expectation of privacy or anonymity on the highway.
Delta A[/IMG]NFL l[/IMG]FDA & Ver[/IMG]Ch[/IMG]All A[/IMG]PayPal wants to [/IMG]Wall Street Journal[/[/IMG]Chip and Quill: How EMV Will Increase Card Fraud in the U.S[/B]. First, while the U.S. accounts for 25 percent of global card volume, it attracts 50 percent of all card fraud — because we still rely on magnetic stripes and signatures in cursive to secure and verify card transactions. Fun fact #1: Cursive was invented to prevent lifting your quill from the page and blotting ink all over your scroll. I'm not kidding. In response to better pen and ink technologies developed decades ago (not to mention word processing), schools are finally phasing out instruction in cursive writing. Fun fact #2: In a very recent non-scientific study conducted only by me, I concluded that humans are incapable of reproducing signatures on point-of-sale (POS) terminals that don't draw their sobriety into question — not that it matters since no one's checking them anyway. And since no one's checking them, signatures are not a reliable source of identification, and they are completely useless in preventing lost-and-stolen card fraud. Editor's note:
E[/IMG][/IMG]Latest Obama order aims to combat identity theft, data breaches[/B]. President Obama signed an executive order on Friday [10/17/2014] designed to increase Americans' financial security and strengthen protections against identity theft. The new "BuySecure" initiative is an attempt to expedite the transition away from debit and credit cards with magnetic strips, a dated technology that's more vulnerable to intrusion, and toward cards with microchips and PIN numbers, which are considered more secure. Under the order, starting next year, all government-issued cards will make use of the newer technology. The Editor says...
Once the federal [/IMG]Fr[/IMG][/IMG]Texas Schools Are Forc[/IMG]Student Refus[/IMG]Student Suspended for Refus[/IMG]Texas school can force students to wear locator ch[/IMG]Texas schools pun[/IMG]Officials Kick Andrea Hernandez Out of Magnet School Over Religious Objections to RFID Tracking Program[/B][/url]. In keeping with a court order to provide school officials with a written decision as to whether or not she will agree to wear an RFID tracking badge to school, Andrea Hernandez had asked school officials at John Jay High School to allow her to continue her "education uninterrupted" by permitting her to use her old ID badge which "does not signify participation in a program which I believe conflicts with my religious beliefs." The Editor says...
The lesson here [/IMG]New Oba[/IMG]Establ[/IMG]Contactless Cred[/IMG]W[/IMG]Creepy New D[/IMG]by na[/IMG]San Anton[/IMG]Is It Possible That Snowden Is A Hero?[/B][/url] Even those who do not use the Internet or have a computer are having all their data and information collected by the government as well as political marketers. Every swipe of a credit card, supermarket card, library card, debit card, is downloaded to the Net at relatively low cost to the government. GPS in cars and smartphones, Onstar vehicles, can have their locations tracked by the Department of Defense which developed this technology. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags can be used to track everything from household products, casino chips, animals and even people who have them inserted under the skin at fancy VIP club to facilitate faster access to club. These RFIDs are in our passports. Authorities can place GPS devices on suspect vehicles without court orders thanks to the Patriot Act. This is not fiction. It is real and it is happening to all of us now. When a car salesman tells you keyless entry is safe, ask about this:
H[/IMG]RF[/IMG][/IMG]Texas school district to require students to wear RFID chip whil [sic] on campus[/B]. A school district in San Antonio, Texas is requiring middle and high school students to wear a "tracking" chip while on campus. And not just a passive RFID (Radio-frequency identification) chip, these second generation RFID chips include a battery that transmits a radio signal for constant location monitoring of the students. District spokesman Pascual Gonzalez said, "Chip readers on campuses and on school buses can detect a student's location but can't track them once they leave school property. Only authorized administrative officials will have access to the information." The Editor says...
The school d[/IMG]Wear rad[/IMG]Student Expelled for Refus[/IMG]Spy[/IMG]Hackers Endorse Texas Student's Refusal to Wear Track[/IMG]USDA Wants RF[/IMG]Texas Students Revolt A[/IMG]'Hu[/IMG]Texas D[/IMG]Concerned About RF[/IMG]Le[/IMG]Information could be 'robbed by radiowave' thanks to new contactless technology[/B][/url]. Millions of credit and debit card users could be 'robbed by radiowave' because of new contactless technology being brought in by banks. Almost 20 million shoppers are now able to buy goods by simply waving their card in front of a reader at the tills, even if it is still in a wallet or a purse. Cattle are tagged for the benefit of the farmer, not the cows.
'B[/IMG]Schools 'spy' on fat k[/IMG]NY Schools Spy on Fat K[/IMG]The black hole of Br[/IMG]Electron[/IMG]Sc[/IMG][/IMG]Don't steal the hotel towels... they're electron[/IMG]Ch[/IMG]Technolo[/IMG]Risks of RFID car keys[/B]. Back in the good old days, if you happened to leave your key in your car, a potential thief still had to 1) know it was there and 2) locate it in order for it to do him or her any good. No more. Now thanks to handy dandy RFID technology the thief can steal the car first and then search for the key after. And, of course, finding a car whose owner has left a key in it somewhere is a simple matter of making a pinging device. Any mass-produced security system can be hacked or bypassed.
How Hackers Can Use S[/IMG][/IMG]TSA scanners are a front to [/IMG]abus[/IMG]RF[/IMG]Select[/IMG]D[/IMG][/IMG]Feds Release Pass Card deta[/IMG]RF[/IMG]Report Te[/IMG]RFID Guardian[/B]. Apparently someone in the Netherlands has developed a prototype device which can
- Detect all RFID chips and scanners in its neighborhood;
- Block the reading of any RFID you carry;
- Spoof a [/IMG]Alar[/IMG]B[/IMG]EP[/IMG]What is RFID?[/B][/url] RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, a technology that uses tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items at a distance. RFID "spy chips" have been hidden in the packaging of Gillette razor products and in other products you might buy at a local Wal-Mart, Target, or Tesco and they are already being used to spy on people.
Tracking device on bins ensures residents chip in[/B]. Bin Brother is watching you. When Randwick City Council began replacing its 78,000 residential garbage and recycling bins last month, a resident, Dan Himbrechts, scratched his head. Why get rid of old ones that seemed to work perfectly well? His suspicions grew further when he noticed a small, flat, circular object hidden under the rim of his new bin. About the size of a 10-cent coin, it had the letters "TI-RFid" embossed on it. … [Local officials] say they are using the data to help identify areas where people are not recycling enough.
The Editor asks...
What happens to the people who don't recycle enough?
New recycling bins with tracking chips coming to Alexandria[/B]. Alexandria residents soon will have to pay for larger home recycling bins featuring built-in monitoring devices. The City Council added a mandatory $9 charge to its residents' annual waste collection fee. That cash — roughly $180,000 collected from 19,000 residents — will pay for new larger recycling carts equipped with computer microchips, which will allow the city to keep tabs on its bins and track resident participation in the city's recycling program.
Ch[/IMG]Hacker RF[/IMG]RF[/IMG]RF[/IMG]RFID Viruses and Worms[/B]. Up until now, everyone working on RFID technology has tacitly assumed that the mere act of scanning an RFID tag cannot modify back-end software, and certainly not in a malicious way. Unfortunately, they are wrong. In our research, we have discovered that if certain vulnerabilities exist in the RFID software, an RFID tag can be (intentionally) infected with a virus and this virus can infect the backend database used by the RFID software. This article was published in January 2003, hence the reference to John Poindexter.
RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages[/B]. The privacy threat comes when RFID tags remain active once you leave a store.
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and its impact on privacy[/B]
Rad[/IMG]l[/IMG]super[/IMG]
Another way to sacr[/IMG]OnStar[/B], wh[/IMG]pay[/IMG]Toll Road RFID Tags[/B][/url] and license plate scanners to be a threat to privacy, anonymity and individual liberty. Unfortunately, the courts have ruled that there can be no expectation of privacy or anonymity on the highway.
Delta A[/IMG]NFL l[/IMG]FDA & Ver[/IMG]Ch[/IMG]All A[/IMG]PayPal wants to [/IMG]Wall Street Journal[/[/IMG]Chip and Quill: How EMV Will Increase Card Fraud in the U.S[/B]. First, while the U.S. accounts for 25 percent of global card volume, it attracts 50 percent of all card fraud — because we still rely on magnetic stripes and signatures in cursive to secure and verify card transactions. Fun fact #1: Cursive was invented to prevent lifting your quill from the page and blotting ink all over your scroll. I'm not kidding. In response to better pen and ink technologies developed decades ago (not to mention word processing), schools are finally phasing out instruction in cursive writing. Fun fact #2: In a very recent non-scientific study conducted only by me, I concluded that humans are incapable of reproducing signatures on point-of-sale (POS) terminals that don't draw their sobriety into question — not that it matters since no one's checking them anyway. And since no one's checking them, signatures are not a reliable source of identification, and they are completely useless in preventing lost-and-stolen card fraud. Editor's note:
E[/IMG][/IMG]Latest Obama order aims to combat identity theft, data breaches[/B]. President Obama signed an executive order on Friday [10/17/2014] designed to increase Americans' financial security and strengthen protections against identity theft. The new "BuySecure" initiative is an attempt to expedite the transition away from debit and credit cards with magnetic strips, a dated technology that's more vulnerable to intrusion, and toward cards with microchips and PIN numbers, which are considered more secure. Under the order, starting next year, all government-issued cards will make use of the newer technology. The Editor says...
Once the federal [/IMG]Fr[/IMG][/IMG]Texas Schools Are Forc[/IMG]Student Refus[/IMG]Student Suspended for Refus[/IMG]Texas school can force students to wear locator ch[/IMG]Texas schools pun[/IMG]Officials Kick Andrea Hernandez Out of Magnet School Over Religious Objections to RFID Tracking Program[/B][/url]. In keeping with a court order to provide school officials with a written decision as to whether or not she will agree to wear an RFID tracking badge to school, Andrea Hernandez had asked school officials at John Jay High School to allow her to continue her "education uninterrupted" by permitting her to use her old ID badge which "does not signify participation in a program which I believe conflicts with my religious beliefs." The Editor says...
The lesson here [/IMG]New Oba[/IMG]Establ[/IMG]Contactless Cred[/IMG]W[/IMG]Creepy New D[/IMG]by na[/IMG]San Anton[/IMG]Is It Possible That Snowden Is A Hero?[/B][/url] Even those who do not use the Internet or have a computer are having all their data and information collected by the government as well as political marketers. Every swipe of a credit card, supermarket card, library card, debit card, is downloaded to the Net at relatively low cost to the government. GPS in cars and smartphones, Onstar vehicles, can have their locations tracked by the Department of Defense which developed this technology. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags can be used to track everything from household products, casino chips, animals and even people who have them inserted under the skin at fancy VIP club to facilitate faster access to club. These RFIDs are in our passports. Authorities can place GPS devices on suspect vehicles without court orders thanks to the Patriot Act. This is not fiction. It is real and it is happening to all of us now. When a car salesman tells you keyless entry is safe, ask about this:
H[/IMG]RF[/IMG][/IMG]Texas school district to require students to wear RFID chip whil [sic] on campus[/B]. A school district in San Antonio, Texas is requiring middle and high school students to wear a "tracking" chip while on campus. And not just a passive RFID (Radio-frequency identification) chip, these second generation RFID chips include a battery that transmits a radio signal for constant location monitoring of the students. District spokesman Pascual Gonzalez said, "Chip readers on campuses and on school buses can detect a student's location but can't track them once they leave school property. Only authorized administrative officials will have access to the information." The Editor says...
The school d[/IMG]Wear rad[/IMG]Student Expelled for Refus[/IMG]Spy[/IMG]Hackers Endorse Texas Student's Refusal to Wear Track[/IMG]USDA Wants RF[/IMG]Texas Students Revolt A[/IMG]'Hu[/IMG]Texas D[/IMG]Concerned About RF[/IMG]Le[/IMG]Information could be 'robbed by radiowave' thanks to new contactless technology[/B][/url]. Millions of credit and debit card users could be 'robbed by radiowave' because of new contactless technology being brought in by banks. Almost 20 million shoppers are now able to buy goods by simply waving their card in front of a reader at the tills, even if it is still in a wallet or a purse. Cattle are tagged for the benefit of the farmer, not the cows.
'B[/IMG]Schools 'spy' on fat k[/IMG]NY Schools Spy on Fat K[/IMG]The black hole of Br[/IMG]Electron[/IMG]Sc[/IMG][/IMG]Don't steal the hotel towels... they're electron[/IMG]Ch[/IMG]Technolo[/IMG]Risks of RFID car keys[/B]. Back in the good old days, if you happened to leave your key in your car, a potential thief still had to 1) know it was there and 2) locate it in order for it to do him or her any good. No more. Now thanks to handy dandy RFID technology the thief can steal the car first and then search for the key after. And, of course, finding a car whose owner has left a key in it somewhere is a simple matter of making a pinging device. Any mass-produced security system can be hacked or bypassed.
How Hackers Can Use S[/IMG][/IMG]TSA scanners are a front to [/IMG]abus[/IMG]RF[/IMG]Select[/IMG]D[/IMG][/IMG]Feds Release Pass Card deta[/IMG]RF[/IMG]Report Te[/IMG]RFID Guardian[/B]. Apparently someone in the Netherlands has developed a prototype device which can
- Detect all RFID chips and scanners in its neighborhood;
- Block the reading of any RFID you carry;
- Spoof a [/IMG]Alar[/IMG]B[/IMG]EP[/IMG]What is RFID?[/B][/url] RFID stands for Radio Frequency IDentification, a technology that uses tiny computer chips smaller than a grain of sand to track items at a distance. RFID "spy chips" have been hidden in the packaging of Gillette razor products and in other products you might buy at a local Wal-Mart, Target, or Tesco and they are already being used to spy on people.
Tracking device on bins ensures residents chip in[/B]. Bin Brother is watching you. When Randwick City Council began replacing its 78,000 residential garbage and recycling bins last month, a resident, Dan Himbrechts, scratched his head. Why get rid of old ones that seemed to work perfectly well? His suspicions grew further when he noticed a small, flat, circular object hidden under the rim of his new bin. About the size of a 10-cent coin, it had the letters "TI-RFid" embossed on it. … [Local officials] say they are using the data to help identify areas where people are not recycling enough.
The Editor asks...
What happens to the people who don't recycle enough?
New recycling bins with tracking chips coming to Alexandria[/B]. Alexandria residents soon will have to pay for larger home recycling bins featuring built-in monitoring devices. The City Council added a mandatory $9 charge to its residents' annual waste collection fee. That cash — roughly $180,000 collected from 19,000 residents — will pay for new larger recycling carts equipped with computer microchips, which will allow the city to keep tabs on its bins and track resident participation in the city's recycling program.
Ch[/IMG]Hacker RF[/IMG]RF[/IMG]RF[/IMG]RFID Viruses and Worms[/B]. Up until now, everyone working on RFID technology has tacitly assumed that the mere act of scanning an RFID tag cannot modify back-end software, and certainly not in a malicious way. Unfortunately, they are wrong. In our research, we have discovered that if certain vulnerabilities exist in the RFID software, an RFID tag can be (intentionally) infected with a virus and this virus can infect the backend database used by the RFID software. This article was published in January 2003, hence the reference to John Poindexter.
RFID tags: Big Brother in small packages[/B]. The privacy threat comes when RFID tags remain active once you leave a store.
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