Comments on: German Hacker Successfully Clones E-Passports

By: Sandeep Nain

Sandeep Nain — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:30:53 +0000

Nice idea TRDQ…. but the question here is… When will government think about these issues…

they are introducing the technology but in this lame way… its too bad

i think im sounding more like philospher here rather than being security professional

By: Nobody_Holme

Nobody_Holme — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 14:06:17 +0000

TRDQ, thats a genius idea. I want to help.

By: TheRealDonQuixote

TheRealDonQuixote — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:31:33 +0000

Sorry for the “this is old” lameness. I realized I sounded like a duma$$ digg user. Now that is the definition of embarrassing!!

Anyhew, tinfoil is supposed to work too for screwing up RFID readers. I’ve seen a wallet with some sheets of foil built right into the walls of the thing, its supposed to cover your RFID enabled credit cards. But some say that you have to completely wrap the card or passport in foil. I dunno cause I haven’t been able to play around with RFID stuff, no money.

I really want to go around a Gap and make all their inventory magically disappear from their systems. All I need is a small EMP device

By: CK76

CK76 — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:50:45 +0000

This is why I keep my passport in an antistatic bag. It’s great when your at the airport, and one curious person asks why I’m doing it. Soon enough I’m explaining to a small group of people the principles of RFID and why it’s so insecure.

Good post DKNT. Spread the word.

By: Alfred Farrington

Alfred Farrington — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:21:22 +0000

Refreshing never hurt anyone. Hmmmm when is the government going to get themselves together. They ought to stop hiring all these guys out there that really don’t know what they are doing. just pitching ideas. Hey let’s try this encryption we don’t need that then “we won’t understand it or better they might break the encryption” . So the governments answer no encryption gee I would love to work in that sector when I grow up.

By: Nobody_Holme

Nobody_Holme — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:56:03 +0000

RFID is the worst idea since sliced bread? :p

By: Sandeep nain

Sandeep nain — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:14:54 +0000

Although its an old one but was a good one to read for people like who haven’t read it before. so thanx darknet…

By: Darknet

Darknet — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:43:20 +0000

TRDQ: Yeah actually I didnt notice the date on the article, Daniel sent to me as something of interest, so I just read it and posted it. The Wired article is also from 2006 now I checked it. It’s still interesting though I think

The hammer technique is interesting!

I was following RFID quite closely when it first emerged, but then I lost touch a bit.

By: Sandeep Nain

Sandeep Nain — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:03:12 +0000

Wow… one more lame step taken by the govt. why govt always need to assume that anthing which looks geeky is more secure..

i wonder if the officials even wanted to know about the security of these RFIDs. i’m sure they didn’t even think about the data encryption..

I remember when they interoduced this watermark thingy in passports which can be seen only in ultra violet light (or something like that) and claimed it will be hard to forge the passports now…

By: TheRealDonQuixote

TheRealDonQuixote — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:12:16 +0000

No offense DKNT, but isn’t this old news? Engadget had an article about these guys way back on 03.08.06.

If anyone’s interested here’s a great video on how to skim data from RFID credit cards.
RFID-enabled Credit Card Skimming

And here’s a link on how to write RFID worms!! The Dutch have been on this for quite a while now.
vrije Universiteit

I’ve been following RFID hacks for a long time now. I wish I could afford all these toys just so I could bother the cr@p out of my parents!!
Of course I can’t solder for shite…