Friday, 30 July 2010

Bad guys could read RFID passports at 217 feet

Radio frequency ID tags embedded in U.S. passports can be read hundreds of feet away, potentially making it inexpensive and easy to pick American tourists out of crowds for illicit purposes, a demonstration at Black Hat 2010 showed.

Source:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/072910-black-hat-rfid-passports.html

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