Friday, March 14, 2008

RFID hack effects Oyster cards and others

From Engadget

Mifare Classic's encryption issue was sure to lead to some widespread problems.
As of now - it looks like the most effected operations are of the mass transit variety, but there are tangible gains for the would-be-hacker to target transit systems. Just wait for the kids hacking are contacted by folks with much more malicious and specific intentions.

Here's a link to Engadget's story.
I know most of us will be staying on top of this so share the info.

also - here's a link Engadget's RSS page.
They've got some of the most valuable feeds on my reading lists
so I highly recommend them to add for yourself.
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