Comments on: New US RFID pass card raises privacy and security concerns http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/01/new-us-rfid-pass-card-raises-privacy-and-security-concerns/ EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:39:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mr. Protip http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/01/new-us-rfid-pass-card-raises-privacy-and-security-concerns/comment-page-1/#comment-16364 Mr. Protip Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:21:04 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/01/new-us-rfid-pass-card-raises-privacy-and-security-concerns/#comment-16364 "But Mr. Protip, airports are high security areas it would be foolish to unleash an EMP there!" Thats a good point, alter-ego, in other countries and places like Europe, passports are needed for many other services outside of airports. EMP-ing is much easier in less security zones like malls, where one, especially tourists, might be to get a new phone card, or a sim card for their out of area cellular phone. A passport might need to be presented there, EMPing cards in those locations would render still render their RFID chips fried by the time they go to the airport! “But Mr. Protip, airports are high security areas it would be foolish to unleash an EMP there!”

Thats a good point, alter-ego, in other countries and places like Europe, passports are needed for many other services outside of airports. EMP-ing is much easier in less security zones like malls, where one, especially tourists, might be to get a new phone card, or a sim card for their out of area cellular phone. A passport might need to be presented there, EMPing cards in those locations would render still render their RFID chips fried by the time they go to the airport!

]]> By: Mr. Protip http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/01/new-us-rfid-pass-card-raises-privacy-and-security-concerns/comment-page-1/#comment-16363 Mr. Protip Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:17:24 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/01/new-us-rfid-pass-card-raises-privacy-and-security-concerns/#comment-16363 PROTIP: EMP an airport and the chips in the passports are fried - as well as all other electronics - but nobody would suspect that the target was the passports and users could pass checkpoints untagged. PROTIP: EMP an airport and the chips in the passports are fried – as well as all other electronics – but nobody would suspect that the target was the passports and users could pass checkpoints untagged.

]]> By: HAL http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/01/new-us-rfid-pass-card-raises-privacy-and-security-concerns/comment-page-1/#comment-16354 HAL Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:09:42 +0000 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/01/01/new-us-rfid-pass-card-raises-privacy-and-security-concerns/#comment-16354 Just get yourself a cell phone blocker bag. Make sure the mesh compound covers the reader freq of the ID tag. About 25 bucks, on average. HAL Just get yourself a cell phone blocker bag. Make sure the mesh compound covers the reader freq of the ID tag. About 25 bucks, on average.

HAL

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