Sherri Davidoff of philosecurity.org gave a presentation at Defcon this year on how much people are being tracked in their lives. What a wonderful presentation. Makes me sad and despressed, but damn, what can I do? Download PDF of her presentation. Or read the full blog post here Abstract: Worldwide, people who use cars, buses, trains, and carry cell phones are tracked in increasingly centralized corporate and government databases. This capability is still in its infancy, and has been facilitated by communication and payment systems which are linked to identification and refer to centralized electronic databases. Mass tracking and surveillance capabilities have arisen organically, often as side effects of new technologies,...
We don’t have any Canadian’s on the staff here at PlanAHeist, but I hear that not only is Quebec going to issuing RFID enabled driver’s licenses, but that they will be required for entrance into the USA starting June 1, 2009. These enhanced driver’s licenses cost $40CAD, if you wait for your current one to expire, otherwise it costs $51.97CAD. Quite spendy considering I only paid $20USA for mine (albeit non-RFID). Putting aside the security issues of RFID in general, they claim they are going to only include a code that a US Border agent can read. This code is then required for a lookup of your file in a database that is managed by the Canada Border Services Agency. One concern, if that the...
Got this off hackaday.com When we first saw [Chris Paget]’s cloning video, our reaction was pretty ‘meh’. We’d seen RFID cloning before and the Mifare crack was probably the last time RFID was actually interesting. His ShmooCon presentation, embedded above, caught us completely off-guard. It’s very informative; we highly recommend it. The hardest part about selling this talk is that it has to use two overloaded words: ‘RFID’ and ‘passport’. The Passport Card, which is part the the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), is not like the passport book that you’re familiar with. It has the form factor of a driver’s license and can only be used for land and sea travel between the USA, Canada,...
