Cellphone Could Crack RFID Tags

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () bsf-llc com>]

IT <http://it.slashdot.org/> : Cellphone Could Crack RFID Tags 

Posted by ScuttleMonkey <http://slashdot.org/~ScuttleMonkey/>  on Wednesday
February 15, @04:34AM
from the let-the-wardriving-begin dept. 
 <http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=172> Security 
diverge_s <http://iptagger.com/>  writes "Adi Shamir of RSA is at it again.
This time pointing out flaws
<http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=180201688> in
RFID systems. From the article: 'I haven't tested all RFID tags, but we did
test the biggest brand and it is totally unprotected,' Shamir said. Using
this approach, 'a cellphone has all the ingredients you need to conduct an
attack and compromise all the RFID tags in the vicinity.'" 

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