Re: Study Says Chips in ID Tags Are Vulnerable to Viruses

[Peter Tonoli <anarchie+funsec () metaverse org>]

Do these RFID chips really need to be written to?

<http://www.rfidvirus.org/index.html>

Unfortunately, businesses and governments are not the only ones 
interested in RFID. Civil liberties groups, hackers and criminals are 
also keenly interested in this new development, albeit for very 
different reasons. Civil liberties groups are concerned about RFID 
technology being used to invade people's privacy; RFID tags enable 
unethical individuals to snoop on people and surreptitiously collect 
data on them without their approval or even knowledge. For example, 
RFID-enabled public transit tickets could allow public transit managers 
to compile a dossier listing all of a person's travels in the past year 
-- information which may be of interest to the police, divorce lawyers, 
and others.

However, privacy is not the focus of this website and will not be 
discussed further below. On the other hand, we are intensely concerned 
about privacy in an RFID-enabled world and have built an entire sister 
website about a device we have constructed, called the RFID Guardian, 
which could potentially help people protect their privacy from RFID 
snooping in the future. Those interested in RFID and privacy might want 
to check it out at www.rfidguardian.org. The website even includes a 
video of the prototype RFID Guardian in action.



Richard M. Smith wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/15/technology/15tag.html?ei=5090&en=24f421ff2
> 4864376&ex=1300078800&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
> ________________________________
>
> March 15, 2006
> Study Says Chips in ID Tags Are Vulnerable to Viruses 
> By JOHN MARKOFF 
>
> A group of European computer researchers have demonstrated that it is
> possible to insert a software virus into radio frequency identification
> tags, part of a microchip-based tracking technology in growing use in
> commercial and security applications.
>   

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