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Why Mythbusters won’t do RFID
September 4, 2008
Check out this short YouTube segment.
It shows Adam Savage, one of the co-hosts of the Discovery channel’s Mythbusters show, explaining what happened when they started research for a segment on RFID. In summary, the chief counsels of the major credit card companies hijacked a conference call and threatened the Mythbusters producers to back down.
Pretty funny. Or perhaps not. If you’re using a security or communications technology, especially one involved in banking, and information about how it works is being supressed, that’s a good sign that it’s actually not secure. The result is that the bad guys figure out how to hack it anyway, and consumers aren’t aware of the risk.
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