Credit-Card Companies Killed Mythbusters Segment on RFID

Check out the first two minutes of this clip of Mythbusters' Adam Savage telling the folks at the HOPE hackercon about how the Discovery Channel was bullied by big credit-card companies out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is. (From BoingBoing) Find his full presentation on his fascination with the dodo bird here.
Xaxsays...

That really sucks. I can't wait for the day where TV stations and satellite/cable TV providers become extinct, and we can choose which shows we want to watch (streamed over the Internet obviously) by paying for them individually. No more advertisers to placate, no more government interference, etc. Okay, that last part about no government interference was just a joke.

jdbatessays...

It's easily hackable, some students did it with a lap top and a reader then were able to clone the card, the security risk was if someone was then able to see you enter your pin. So if you have an rfid / smart card nevr use it with the pin!

choggiesays...

Texas Instruments is effectively part of Raytheon, one of the biggest defense contractors, eh?? They keep the private sector storefront the same at some facilities, but it's the same machine....

ponceleonsays...

wow... did you see how the clip ends? That woman is a nutjob... clearly she doesn't understand that the point of mythbuster is to check out urban myths... why the fuh would they want to test pizza stones?

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