"Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon"

[Matt Crawford]

On Sep 1, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:

> ". . . federal agents at the conference got a scare on Friday when  
> they were told they might have been caught in the sights of an RFID  
> reader.
>
> The reader, connected to a web camera, sniffed data from RFID- 
> enabled ID cards and other documents carried by attendees in pockets  
> and backpacks as they passed a table where the equipment was  
> stationed in full view...."


I told them so...

http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/piv/documents/FIPS201-Public-Comments/Fermilab-Computer-Security.pdf

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