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how to read information from RFID equipped credit cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Fri Mar 21 14:55:37 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:52:33 -0400
Nothing terribly new here -- short interview with someone who bought
an RFID credit card reader on ebay for $8 and demonstrates getting
people's credit card information at short distances using it. Still,
it is interesting to see how trivial it is to do.
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/19/bbtv-how-to-hack-an.html
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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