WalMart Puts Spychips in Your Underwear.

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WalMart Puts Spychips in

Your Underwear.

 

 

 

 

 

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WalMart Puts Spychips in Your Underwear.

 

423-18-3950

 

8/4/2004

 

9:12 am EDT

 

 

 

RFID technology is here. Now we?ll all be getting RFID?d or "riffed."

 

 

 

Walmart starts the practice in all its stores January 2005. What you

need to

 

understand about this technology is that each RFID holds 512K of info.

What

 

no one understands is that RFIDs are now read and write. They are not

just

 

used for inventory. When you purchase something with an RFID, the

store can

 

elect to "write" to the chip that you bought the product

 

including your credit card and other info, such as your address and

 

phone...and SSN. The claim is that RFIDs are just for inventory

control.

 

 

 

Why should you care beyond the obvious? Suppose you?re at the airport

 

leaving for a month overseas and an unscrupulous airport scanner guy

can see

 

all your info because he has the reader in front of him. What protects

you

 

from having him loot your house while you?re gone. What if you want to

buy a

 

car for cash and your credit is bad? Your SSN info can keep you from

 

getting a job. RF-Dump is a hacker program that can alter RFIDs

 

(http://www.rfdump.org): what if some kid next to you with a Pocket PC

(only

 

thing it will run on right now) steals then replaces your info while

you?re

 

sitting in a movie?

 

 

 

Not knowing about this is another net effect of people not bitching

about

 

the news they need to get.

 

 

 

There is no ability to turn the RFID off after you leave the store.

 

 

 

Katherine Albrecht is the angel in this fight.

 

She heads CASPIAN and one of

 

her informative sites is:: http://www.spychips.com -

 

 

 

RFDump

 

 

 

RFDump is a tool to detect RFID-Tags and show their meta information:

Tag

 

ID, Tag Type, manufacturer etc. The user data memory of a tag can be

 

displayed and modified using either a Hex or an ASCII editor. In

addition,

 

the integrated cookie feature demonstrates how easy it is for a

company to

 

abuse RFID technology to spy on their customers. RFDump works with the

ACG

 

Multi-Tag Reader or similar card reader hardware.

 

 

 

RFDump is available in three different versions:

 

 

 

* As Java application for Windows and Linux with an inutitive GUI

 

* As Gtk application for Linux with a GUI similar to the Java

implementation

 

(NEW!)

 

* As rudimentary Perl script for Linux (PC or PDA) with a console based

 

interface

 

 

 

RFDump features (Perl Script):

 

 

 

* Platform-indipendent Perl script

 

* Runs on any Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD

 

* Supports ACGs PCMCIA/CF Multi Tag Readers

 

* Decodes the tag type, tag ID and manufacturer

 

 

 

RFDump features (Gtk Application / Java Application):

 

 

 

Read more about the features of the Java application here.

 

 

 

* Runs on Linux, Windows

 

* Supports ACGs PCMCIA/CF Multi-Tag Readers

 

* Decodes the tag type, tag ID and manufacturer

 

* Displays tag memory in Hex and ASCII encoding

 

* Allows to write memory using Hex or ASCII editor

 

* NEW: Cookie feature using arbitrary cookie ID and automatically

 

incrementing counter

 

 

 

Supported Tag Types:

 

 

 

* ISO 15693: Tag-it ISO, My-d, I-Code SLI, LRI512, TempSense

 

* ISO 14443 A: Mifare Standard(1,2), Mifare UltraLight(1,2)

 

* ISO 14443 B: SR176(1,2)

 

* Tag-it®

 

* I-Code®

 

 

 

Recommended Hardware:

 

 

 

* Linux/Windows PC or HP iPAQ PDA with Linux

 

* ACG Multi-Tag Reader, in a CF-Flash Socket or PCMCIA Adapter

 

* 13.56 MHz Tags for testing

 

 

 

http://www.rfdump.org/