Sort by Boing Boing (Free subscription) - 08/30/2008 - YouTube
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Sort by Boing Boing (Free subscription) - 08/30/2008
Check out the first two minutes of this clip of Mythbusters' Adam Savage telling the folks at the HOPE hackercon about how the Discovery Channel was bullied by big credit-card companies out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is. Arphid Watch: Mythbusters and RFID...
Sort by CrunchGear (Free subscription) - 09/01/2008
Adam Savage of Mythbusters basically busted the myth of RFID security - and the Discovery Channel wouldn’t air the segment. Here he talks at the HOPE conference about the experience.
Sort by Techdirt (Free subscription) - 09/02/2008
It's amazing to watch just how sensitive some companies are concerning the rather well-known security vulnerabilities associated with RFID tags and smart cards. We've seen time and time again, companies try to suppress such research from getting published -- and every single time, those efforts to suppress the publication of the vulnerabilities backfires , often badly . But that never seems to stop...
Sort by Engadget (Free subscription) - 09/02/2008
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Although it's no secret that RFID is easily hacked (see: train passes , passports , credit cards , one billion other cards , etc .) it's still not necessarily common knowledge, and it sounds like the major credit card companies want to keep it that way -- according to Adam Savage, Mythbusters was all set to do a show exposing the weak security behind most RFID implementations...
Sort by Autopia (Free subscription) - 08/30/2008
*Huh. That sure explains a lot. Terrific speech by the godlike Adam Savage here; he's in his element surrounded by these hacker scofflaws.
Sort by Bob McCarty Writes (Free subscription) - 08/30/2008
Bullying takes place on the school playground and in the political arena. It also takes place in the world of big business. The video below shows Adam Savage, co-host of Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters program, addressing the audience at the recent HOPE hackercon about the way the popular cable television network was bullied by representatives of the [...]
Sort by The AnarchAngel (Free subscription) - 09/01/2008
I've been talking about RFID as a security risk for a long time now... Now, my card companies have sent me two cards that have RFID tags in them, without my requesting it or approving it; and there is no option NOT to have this "feature".Of course now all passports have an RFID tag embedded in them (mine doesn't yet... next year).Again, no option to NOT have this "feature"....So I have an , and .Labels:...
Sort by Techotic (Free subscription) - 08/31/2008
Godlike Adam Savage from cult series Mythbusters telling the hackers at the HOPE hackercon about how the Discovery Channel was bullied by credit-card companies out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is. © techotic.com [...]
Sort by Tactical Gamer (Free subscription) - 09/04/2008
Sort by [SecurityRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) - 09/10/2008
Seems that the idea was killed by lawyers under pressure from the credit card industry. Or maybe not; the person who started this rumor has retracted his comments. Or maybe those same lawyers made him...
Sort by arghyle (Free subscription) - 08/31/2008
I don’t watch much TV, but when I do I tend to watch a lot of Discovery channel and that sort of thing. You know, How It’s Made, Mythbusters, nature programming, etc. 1) Adam Savage is awesome. Every week I’m impressed by how good Mythbusters is and it’s all because the Savage/Hyneman team. The fact that they [...]
Sort by Murky.org (Free subscription) - 08/31/2008
Adam Savage, of the excellent ‘Mythbusters’ programme(*) reports that they were going to do a segment on RFID chips only to have the lawyers descend from Visa, American Express etc. Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else… They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made [...]
