It's almost been a month since researchers at the Amsterdam's Free University created a radio frequency identity (RFID) chip infected with a virus to prove that RFID systems are vulnerable...
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Lou Sirico takes to task the Wall Street Journal over its recent article about consumers putting their credit cards in the microwave in order to fry the RFID chips in them. The story centered on RFID...
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RFID presents a conundrum. On the one hand, for it to be useful it has to be easy to read by a variety of readers across different organizations. On the other hand, when tags are easy to read,...
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RFID seems to be a soft target these days. A group of more than 20 interest groups which includes physicians, tax reformers, privacy advocates and others have decided that RFID has no place in an...
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In one of my previous posts I talked about the virus scare haunting RFID technology. After racking my brains for quite some time I found out some facts about RFID: Since RFID tags are just storage...
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Here's more on RFID chipped people relating to my article of last week. Someone sent me an Internet.com news article that quotes a VeriSign official saying that 2,000 people worldwide have RFID...
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When I read news reports like this indicating that the European Union is going to launch a public inquiry into RFID, I don't know whether to (1) be worried that lawmakers will stifle the promise...
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A couple of weeks ago there was a report about cell phones (mobile phones to everyone outside North America) being used to "kill" RFID tags. If you were losing sleep over it, well, now you...
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RFID tags are being used today to track pets, check out library books, and pay tolls without stopping your car. All these uses and more are summed up in an article in the Press Enterprise, a...
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A few months ago I wrote about Obivision (Open Business Innovation) and its approach to RFID privacy. Using Obivision's technology, the concept is simple: RFID tags would freely transfer data...
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On October 4, 2005, the book Spychips was published and made its way to Amazon.com. You get an immediate sense for the angle and approach the book takes from its extended title: Spychips: How Major...
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This week I kick off a brief 2-part series about privacy issues in RFID. Never fear -- we will remain focused on the application of RFID in the business setting. I have no intentions of turning this...
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RFID tag privacy and security is an issue getting growing attention. As the use of RFID grows and touches consumers' lives, concern is also growing about whether tag data is secure or whether...
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The head of an independent administrative body in Norway has flagged concerns with the imminent launch of Norway's ePassports. Anders Jacobsen from RFID Buzz points to this interesting bit of...
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People are most concerned about misuse of data in connection with RFID identification cards -- and not about RFID technology itself. That's one of the conclusions reached in a recent survey...
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Hat tip to the Open Society Paradox......
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A Danish privacy consultant and a security company have joined forces on a novel approach to RFID tag security in the retail supply chain. Stephan Engberg of Open Business Innovation has developed...
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I am impressed with the better job the U.S. government departments are doing with their RFID communications outreach these days. When the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently announced a...
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