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Thread ID: 65710	2006-01-28 00:23:00	What's It Coming To?	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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424744	2006-01-28 00:23:00	This hit me outta the blue . . . can this be true? HOWTO turn a disposable camera into an RFID-killer With a little work, a disposable camera can be turned into a low-cost device for disabling the tracking bugs in many products and ID cards . Radio Frequency ID tags (RFIDs) are tiny bugs that can be embedded in products and ID cards, enabling them to be read at a distance . US passports and London's tube-cards are beginning to incorporate these . Nominally, they can only be read at a few centimeters' distance, but security researchers have demonstrated that they can be read by attackers at 15 or more meters away . With goods, it's hard to tell if you've got an RFID embedded in them and hard to kill them (though you can put them in the microwave and kill them) . Modding a disposable camera's flash to deliver an RFID-killing energy-shock is a pretty cool project if you want a portable way to disinfect your stuff . The London Underground's "Oyster cards" are used as stored-value cards for boarding the tube . They track your movements when you touch in and touch out at the turnstiles . You can avoid the worst of the data-collection if you frequently change Oyster cards, but the Underground has promised to start charging £3 for new cards; however, they promise to replace defective cards for free . With one of these, you could zap your card when it runs out of stored money and trade it for a new one that will have a different serial number and consequently not be associatable with your previous card . Many times, intrusions into privacy like this are excused on the basis that they offer discounts in exchange for your personal information . This is true with the Oyster card, too: a single ride on the tube costs £3 now if you use a paper ticket, but with an Oyster card the journey is as little as £1 . 30 . The thing is, before they ramped up Oyster card use on January 1, the cost of a paper single was also as little as £1 . 10 -- in other words, they nearly tripled the cost of an anonymous journey and then told everyone that you got a great discount if you used the privacy-surrendering means . It generates a strong electromagnetic field with a coil, which should be placed as near to the target RFID-Tag as possible . The RFID-Tag then will receive a strong shock of energy comparable with an EMP and some part of it will blow, thus deactivating the chip forever . To keep the costs of the RFID-Zapper as low as possible, we decided to modify the electric component of a single-use-camera with flash, as can be found almost everywhere . Read the rest here ( . boingboing . net/) , but look about 1/4" target="_blank">www . boingboing . net/) , but look about 1 the way down the site for the article . .	SurferJoe46 (51)
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