Non-malicious “RFID abuse” & inductively-powered RFID technology

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"Fun and Mayhem with RFID"

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/07/28/business/what.php

http://wiki.whatthehack.org/index.php/Fun_and_Mayhem_with_Radio_Frequency_Identification

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a popular contactless identification technology which has been hyped as the "next generation barcode". These tiny inductively-powered computer chips have already been integrated into consumer goods, passports, public transportation tickets, and even people. Because most RFID tags lack privacy enhancing technologies or cryptography, governments, corporations, and malicious individuals can use RFID technology to track and create behavioral profiles of everyday people.

Effective RFID surveillance and tracking depends upon the proper functioning of RFID systems. Just as hackers can cover their tracks against Intrusion Detection Systems, concerned individuals can fight back against RFID surveillance by introducing false positives and false negatives into RFID systems. Non-malicious “RFID abuse” is likely to appear in forms ranging from self-defense to practical jokes to activism. This presentation will discuss many of the ways to abuse RFID systems, and will then examine the resulting dilemma facing RFID system operators

http://wiki.whatthehack.org/images/e/e0/Wthpresentationfbz.pdf

http://fabienne.us/

[Celebration]

1. Possibly Useful Technology

To track sex offenders. I really don't think I want my medical records imbedded or my jeans, medications or foods be able to be tracked. I would consider allowing it temporarily on checked baggage, as I just had the checked baggage experience from hell.

[papau]

2. A Senior R&D friend said battery broadcast RFID was already in house

So all movements can be tracked without "being close" to a reciever.

Big Brother - via WalMart? - wants bar codes replaced by RFID on all supplies by 1/1/06.