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Re: "Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Wed Sep 9 09:46:46 2009
Cc: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
To: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-Reply-To: <2DBB37B5-033A-4E8E-BB9B-71F1D2225464@fnal.gov>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 22:08:59 -0400
On Sep 4, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Matt Crawford 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
Remember: Before it's actually happened, any discussion is just
reckless speculation, rumor-mongering, or worse.
After it's actually happened, it's either (a) not a real issue; (b) a
major new attack that could not have been foreseen but that will be
dealt with immediately by top people. Top people.
-- Jerry
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