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RFID-enabled credit cards hacked for $8

submitted by curiousity

1 decade 6 years 8 months ago

Engineering

From Utube description:

Added: March 20, 2008
A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags), with promises of enhanced security and speedy transactions.

But on today's episode of Boing Boing tv, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman shows Xeni how you can use about $8 worth of gear bought on eBay to read personal data from those credit cards -- cardholder name, credit card number, and whatever else your bank embeds in this manner.

Fears over data leaks from RFID-enabled cards aren't new, and some argue they're overblown -- but this demo shows just how cheap and easy the "sniffing" can be.

This episode is part of our ongoing series of interviews with some of the thinkers, hackers, and tinkerers at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference this year.

9 Comments

Papers please.

I find it hard to believe that credit card companies would implement a system that would allow me to walk up a busy street with some cheap tech in my backpack and harvest tens or hundreds of credit card numbers and names automatically.
Surely they couldn't be that stupid? Surely they employ at least one person with a voice and a brain to idiot-check their ideas?

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I find it hard to believe that credit card companies would implement a system that would allow me to walk up a busy street with some cheap tech in my backpack and harvest tens or hundreds of credit card numbers and names automatically.
Surely they couldn't be that stupid? Surely they employ at least one person with a voice and a brain to idiot-check their ideas?

They probably did a cost analysis and decided that it would be cheaper to deal with identity theft than to implement decent security.

No, they're not stupid. They know full well what they have done. It's a violation of our privacy.

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