“White Hat” Hacker Clones The Passports And Drivers Licences Of Unsuspecting Americans
The Video below shows a hacker who using a $250 Motorola RFID reader and antenna connected to his laptop managed to read the RFID tags off of drivers licenses, passports and other identity documents that have RFID tags in them. Plus he managed to find and clone TWO passports.
Scary.
The only good news in this is that he’s a “white hat” hacker which means he’s one of the good guys. The video is meant to show how craptastic RFID is from a security standpoint.
If this video scares you (and it should) here are some products from Thinkgeek.com that will protect you from this sort of thing (I own the wallet myself):
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“White Hat” Hacker Clones The Passports And Drivers Licences Of Unsuspecting Americans
The Video below shows a hacker who using a $250 Motorola RFID reader and antenna connected to his laptop managed to read the RFID tags off of drivers licenses, passports and other identity documents that have RFID tags in them. Plus he managed to find and clone TWO passports.
Scary.
The only good news in this is that he’s a “white hat” hacker which means he’s one of the good guys. The video is meant to show how craptastic RFID is from a security standpoint.
If this video scares you (and it should) here are some products from Thinkgeek.com that will protect you from this sort of thing (I own the wallet myself):
RFID Blocking Wallet
RFID Blocking Passport Billfold
Stainless Steel RFID Blocking Passport Sleeve
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This entry was posted on February 2, 2009 at 9:14 am and is filed under Commentary with tags RFID, Security. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.