Jefferson's Wheel

KIRO TV (Seattle) has a story on RFID privacy issues: Credit Cards Stolen Without Leaving Wallet (it includes a video demonstration).

German-born Karsten Nohl is a security consultant and PhD student at the University of Virginia. He was in Seattle recently to speak at a technology conference and is known worldwide for hacking into transit systems.

He’s exposed significant security problems with transit cards commuters were told held their personal information secure, but Nohl showed, did not

“Is it all that inconvenient to swipe a card? Does it really have to be tapping? Would, for that perhaps tiny added benefit, now expose your data to everybody in your vicinity? Perhaps not. So, that is a discussion that has to be had. And not just by the companies introducing something new and fancy and forcing everybody to use it, but rather by the consumers, too,” said Nohl.

This entry was posted on Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 11:24 am and is filed under Cryptography, Privacy, RFID, Security.