If You Think Your RFID Passport Is Secure, Think Again
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From: William Black on 16 Dec 2009 06:10 Brian wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:51:32 +0000, William Black > <william.black(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > > >> I very much doubt that. >> >> You're restricting the sale of technical equipment. >> >> In a society where you can buy just about any sort of machinery and >> device, short of lethal weapons, without a permit it is very unlikely >> that this is the case. > > You underestimate the trial lawyers. Tell us all about when this has been done to some device that isn't a weapon. The British government tried over the years to restrict access to CB radio and scanner type receivers. In the end they gave up. You can't stop people getting hold of this sort of stuff. -- 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 16 Dec 2009 11:49 William Black writes: > All this sort of stuff is freely available if it's made. > > That it isn't available means nobody is making it. How do you know it's not available? Where do you shop? > That nobody is making it means it can't be done yet. Even if nobody were making it, that would hardly mean that it couldn't be done. > If you've got proof =of anything different going on then say so and I'll > say 'sorry'. > > Otherwise shut up. Or else what?
From: Bob Myers on 16 Dec 2009 12:00 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. Why do people think that doing one thing automatically implies that another different thing is possible? Bob M.
From: William Black on 16 Dec 2009 16:33 Mxsmanic wrote: > William Black writes: > >> All this sort of stuff is freely available if it's made. >> >> That it isn't available means nobody is making it. > > How do you know it's not available? Where do you shop? Everywhere. You know, on the Internet. >> That nobody is making it means it can't be done yet. > > Even if nobody were making it, that would hardly mean that it couldn't be > done. In this case it does. -- 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: William Black on 16 Dec 2009 16:33
Bob Myers wrote: > 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. > > Why do people think that doing one thing automatically > implies that another different thing is possible? Probably because they're idiots. -- 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. |