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. tv.boingboing.net
Troy
August 19, 2010
How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8
Filed under: News — Tags: Boing Tv, Demo, Ebay, Enhanced Security, Fears, Hackers, Holman, Issue Credit Cards, O Reilly, Personal Data, Promises, Radio Frequency Id Tags, Reilly Emerging Technology, Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Tv Hacker — admin @ 8:30 am
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Vanessa
connect that to a smart phone you bastard
Comment by Bryan — August 22, 2010 @ 1:59 am
Kyle
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Comment by Nathan — August 22, 2010 @ 1:53 pm
Theresa
or if your NOT an idiot, you can do it in a few minutes
Comment by Courtney — August 25, 2010 @ 2:51 am
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Comment by Jesus — August 28, 2010 @ 4:11 am
Loretta
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Comment by Allen — August 29, 2010 @ 1:36 am
Jimmy
supposedly it takes about 25 minutes, with a non supercomputer
Comment by Norman — September 1, 2010 @ 7:48 am
Kelly
Entertaining to watch. Thanks for sharing.
Comment by Michael — September 3, 2010 @ 8:23 am
James
such a bullshit video…firstly the vivotech reader he used is the vivopay 5000 and it costs USD100 at least and if he can get me at USD8 bucks, i’d buy 20000 readers today!
with hardware key encryption there’s no way he can do what he said he could do so fast..maybe with supercomputers…a week to ***** 1 card?
what a crap vid ….
Comment by Ruby — September 4, 2010 @ 9:31 pm
Billy
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Comment by Ricky — September 10, 2010 @ 10:54 am
Fernando
Very cool – who didn’t see this coming?
Comment by Jeff — September 12, 2010 @ 8:34 am