Still Think RFID is Secure?
Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing TV has a great example of a hacker (Pablos Holman) cheaply accessing RFID enabled credit cards - it cost him $8 for a reader on eBay. Watch this video! Don’t believe the RFID security hype - tomorrow this will only get easier.
On a side note, to the public sector manager last year who had a wild rant at me about RFID being old technology all I can say is dude stop writing reports and read them! And to the people sold that RFID is secure I’d put forward that I attended a lecture by Ken Sakamura 2 years ago where he said we won’t be on top of RFID for security and privacy issues for about 10 years. I do like RFID but its vulnerable and we need to accept that instead of letting credit card companies set us up for identity theft - all care and no responsibility.