Tuesday, August 02, 2005
RFID tags
Then this morning I read about "this year's Defcon conference, where hackers play intrusion games" in the news...
A group of twentysomethings from Southern California climbed onto the hotel roof to show that RFID tags could be read from as far as 69 feet. That's important because the tags have been proposed for such things as U.S. passports, and critics have raised fears that kidnappers could use RFID readers to pick traveling U.S. citizens out of a crowd.
RFID companies had said the signals didn't reach more than 20 feet, said John Hering, one of the founders of Flexilis, the company that conducted the experiment.
My gut reaction was "see, I told you so" but it falls short of my suspicions as the RFID tags where not reportedly those of the Blink cards. I'll keep watching.
