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Re: "Fed's RFIDiocy pwnd at DefCon"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Tue Sep 8 20:40:46 2009
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:24:30 -0500
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
In-reply-to: <8C436C24-A2FA-4BAC-B843-F572133A7ECD@lrw.com>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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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