blogs.reuters.com — This is the first time someone has cloned an human-implanted RFID chip The pair demonstrated the cloning process: Westhues held a standard RFID reader against an arm to register the chip’s unique identification number. It actually has no security devices what-so-ever - VeriChip’s claims that its RFID chips can not be counterfited
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xrisnothingJul 23, 2006
Have you never been in a crowded bus, subway, train, concert, etc? It would be extremely easy to do this in any place where people are confined to a small area.
rickysan65Jul 23, 2006
If the tag is not secured then you can hardly call it it hacking. That word is used all to easily these days. Going on that kind of thought.. i hacked my coffee mug this morning, it was full when i started but i managed to find a fiendish way of emptying by a process called drinking.. my gawd.. i hacked the coffee mug!!!
buddhachuJul 23, 2006
Same here! I had to do a creamer and sugar injection to cause a buffer overflow of the Java, but then I was in there!
nitetripJul 23, 2006
I'm so tired of hearing that cliche "cracker" "hacker" label.
tek69Jul 23, 2006
when the world banks,credit unions, and networks get hacked and everyone loses their money and identities, I can't wait for my bad credit ass to roll through with a sock full of quarters. Cash is King kids. :p
techguy420Jul 23, 2006
VeriChip spokesman John Procter said %u201CIt%u2019s very difficult to steal a VeriChip %u2026 it%u2019 s much more secure than anything you%u2019d carry around in your wallet,%u201D ya but you dont broadcast the information in your wallet to the whole world! what a slimy bastard!
obkenobiJul 23, 2006
[quote]Hacking is good...just people think that a hacking and cracking are the same thing.[/quote]Cracking is good too sometimes. In a world controlled by corporate tyranny, hackers and crackers are freedom fighters.
genesis2Jul 26, 2006
This "first" cloning of an implanted chip is total bunk, there's nothing new about it, and I've done it myself... --Methinks they just like the attention a bit too much...There are so many rfid standards, most of which are easy to read and reproduce, though certainly not all. Check-out the hitag-s chip if you'd like to see a complicated, (fairly) high-security (implantable) device.
genesis2Jul 26, 2006
RFID does not equate to GPS tracking like so many people think. With an implanted RFID, the best range you'll ever see is still just a matter of a few inches. (Even rigging a door with readers will not notice a chipped person passing through it passively).To make tracking possible, readers would need to be installed every few cubic feet, which is just not plausable.Beyont that, though not all, there _IS_ security to some RFID systems. Be careful about blanket statements to the contrary. Mine requires a two-way handshake, with a 56-bit encryption key. While not DoD standards, it's nothing to skoff at...I did the math on the brute-forcing of that keyspace, coupled with the authentication responsetime, and it turns out that somebody would likely need to stand within inches of me for many hundreds of years to break the key...
ya2sinMay 13, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/security/Say_NO_to_Verichip/">http://digg.com/security/Say_NO_to_Verichip/</a>Make your voice heard!