Is anyone familiar with RFID?

[kentuck]

Supposedly, there is an app that permits someone to identify all your identification that you are carrying on your person and can pick up any electronic transmissions within a certain range?

Is anyone familiar with this? It is available on the newer phones.

[liberal N proud]

1. iCarte RFID Reader for iPhone

http://www.icarte.ca/

[TexasProgresive]

2. Unique bar codes that can be read electronically.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-frequency_identification

[kentuck]

3. Thanks...

As usual, this techology is not always used as it is planned. People with access to your VIN# of your car can open and start your vehicle and drive it away if they so desired.

[ret5hd]

4. The VIN# is visible to all on a little metal plate just inside your windshield...

on your dashboard.

[kentuck]

5. I think this was the technology that was used to intercept Wiener's tweets?

I am told that it can intercept and identify all electronic communications within a certain distance. It is offered on the new Android by Samsung.

[ret5hd]

8. I'm just saying that if someone wants your VIN#, they just need to peer thru you windshield...

to look at a little metal plate on your dashboard that has your VIN# embossed on it.

[HipChick]

12. Wiener tweets were not intercepted...I don't need a network scanner to look at traffic communication

I just need the exploit the weakness in the application..yfrog..that is what was done here..make something appear like it was coming from someone else's account..

[AlabamaLibrul]

18. RFID has nothing to do with intercepting email etc.

more likely, someone did the very easy trick of finding out the to-some-degree "secret" email you can send a photo to from a cell phone -- this is a feature from when full mobile Internet was not as common. You send a photo to that email, the idea being only you know it and send to it from your phone, and it goes onto your yFrog account -- photo hosting.

The new Android by Samsung RFID feature will be able to pick up.. RFID barcodes, and also you may be thinking of NFC, near field communications for mobile payments.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. sort of - "RF" = radio frequency

logically it is like a 'barcode' as in a digital blob of data in a standard format, but RFID uses radio waves to collect data at a distance from the object without any physical need for a manual scanning process as in the checkout counter barcode scanners. And yes many new id systems, such as passports, are coming with rfid built in so that the state can quietly check your papers without having to bother with the constitutional issue.

Just as you are tracked by cell phone, by ez-pass, by card usage, you are being tracked by rfid enabled ids you need to carry to go about your private affairs. Welcome to the grand new totalitarianism, the digital super state, where the charade of personal freedom hides a sprawling security state keeping tabs on everyone and everything they do.

[kentuck]

7. Another scary feature of this...

is that someone can walk by you and identify your credit card number in your purse. There are many malevolent purposes for this technology.

[Tippy]

9. They now have metal case...that prevents this from happening do they work?

[TexasProgresive]

11. It should work- the metal case will shield the rfid device from

the interrogating transmitter's Radio Frequency (RF)

[kentuck]

16. They have "ballistic nylon" ...

or you can wrap your ID's in aluminum foil and prevent them from being read.

[HipChick]

10. Not correct. I have RFID cards, and you'd need a net scanning tool to pick up Weiner tweets..not tha

that you even need it. There's an a weakness in the application, it's not a hack, but exploiting a vulnerability

I have RFID credit cards,most US passports are RFID enabled now too..

[One_Life_To_Give]

14. Havn't seen a CC with RFID yet

Closest I have seen is Exxon/Mobil's "speed pass". The standard magnetic strip on a CC can't be read while in your purse any better than a stereo can play a cassette tape in your purse.

[HipChick]

20. All of my Chase Credit cards have them for the last couple of years, so does my Passport

[One_Life_To_Give]

25. Been interesting reading.

The Passport should be just a number that can be cross referenced to a database. The real question is from how many feet away can one Skim card numbers?

[One_Life_To_Give]

13. Adding it to new products now.

It's a device/circuit that is
1) Powered by RF energy sent from the device reader or other such RF transmitter.
2) Responds with the unique identifier number assigned to it when triggered.

The device itself knows nothing about itself other than it's unique identifier. However databases can be made that link the identifier to other information such as device model name and serial number.

While it could be added to a cell phone. It uses much lower frequencies so it requires a totally separate dedicated transceiver. Probably not going to be added to the average cell phone. But may be able to find a Bluetooth or Wired interface device eventually.

As with all such devices security is related to the distance over which it can be scanned/read. A magnetic strip on a credit card can be read at less than 1mm. Access keys such as Auto I believe have gone from a static code to a dynamically changing one so being able to know what someones key is transmitting now won't help as the code changes when the owner walks away from the car.

[HopeHoops]

15. I've been following that subject for about ten years - check out CASPIAN.

http://www.nocards.org/
http://www.spychips.com/

If you've shopped in a WalMart in the past few years, it is a fair bet you're clothing and household items are littered with them.

HelllOOOOOO Minority Report.

[Distant Observer]

17. Radio Frequency ID operates in both ACTIVE and PASSIVE deployment modes: different capabilities

and implications.

Passive Rfid can be deployed as an almost dot sized device. Active RFID has to be powered and is deployed in a larger form factor.

Look up Near field communication (NFC) on Wiki and you can learn how RFID is being applied to mobile devices

[bobthedrummer]

19. 2 links, 2 perspectives for RFID interested DUers

Electronic Privacy Information Center/EPIC .org (RFID page)
http://epic.org/privacy/rfid/

RFID.org
http://www.rfid.org

Then there is the directed energy perspective, which I've posted about since becoming a DUer and which has gotten a few threads locked due to "national security"/"tinfoil" political correctness about how to handle "inconvenient" truths here.



:)

[BillyJack]

21. RFID is 'good' for product inventories

Not so much when used for people.

e'nuff said.....

[kentuck]

22. Forget RFID...

Think about the app that uses the technology similar to RFID that is intrusive on almost every ID, including electronic communications.

[BillyJack]

23. We agree. n/t

[BlueIris]

24. Gross. nt