There's a company that's serious about your security ...

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

A semiconductor company is suing a Dutch university to keep [the university] 
researchers from publishing information about security flaws in RFID chips. The 
cards are used to open doors in corporate and government buildings and to board 
public transportation systems [such as Oyster and the new one in the 
Netherlands]. The company is pushing the courts to keep university researchers 
from publishing a paper about reported security flaws in the MiFare Classic. The 
paper is slated to be presented at the Esorics security conference in Malaga, Spain, 
this October, according to a graduate student who was part of a research group that 
originally broke the encryption last year. He told Computerworld on Thursday 
that he gave his research to the Dutch university so it could build on what he had 
done, and he has been closely following its progress.  


http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&tax
onomyName=security&articleId=9109139&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top  

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rslade () vcn bc ca     slade () victoria tc ca     rslade () computercrime org
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot
of rubbish into it.                              -  William A. Orton
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Slade
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