If You Think Your RFID Passport Is Secure, Think Again
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From: tim.... on 13 Dec 2009 17:51 "Kurt Ullman" <kurtullman(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:kurtullman-F4E3FA.07494213122009(a)70-3-168-216.pools.spcsdns.net... > In article <7ojr7cF3pkartU1(a)mid.individual.net>, > "tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> >> As I've already said, what is available in the passport is insufficient >> on >> its own so you have to search this database anyway. Thus starting at the >> directory is equivalent to starting with the passport info. >> > Nope. Because with the passport information you are looking for one > specific person. I think you missed out how we got here. The passport information you are collecting is of the random person who has just walked through the check at the airport. I don't call this a specific person. tim
From: Bob Myers on 14 Dec 2009 04:18 While the discussion of just what might or might not be done with the information encoded in an RFID passport is interesting, I think you're all missing a more fundamental issue: no one has questioned the original assertion that it is possible to read this data remotely in the first place. Is there really ANY reason at all for believing that this can readily be done with equipment small enough to be concealed on a person? Bob M.
From: Mxsmanic on 14 Dec 2009 05:14 Bob Myers writes: > Is there really ANY reason at all for believing that this can readily > be done with equipment small enough to be concealed on > a person? Yes. It should be trivially easy. If you can put a GPS receiver in a wristwatch, you can certainly put an RFID reader or sniffer in a space at least as small.
From: William Black on 14 Dec 2009 06:47 Mxsmanic wrote: > Bob Myers writes: > >> Is there really ANY reason at all for believing that this can readily >> be done with equipment small enough to be concealed on >> a person? > > Yes. It should be trivially easy. If you can put a GPS receiver in a > wristwatch, you can certainly put an RFID reader or sniffer in a space at > least as small. So why isn't Radio Shack selling them to every nerd in the world? -- William Black "Any number under six" The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat single handed with a quarterstaff.
From: Mxsmanic on 14 Dec 2009 15:24
William Black writes: > So why isn't Radio Shack selling them to every nerd in the world? Perhaps because there is no demand, and there might be legal complications as well. |