Wednesday, February 27. 2008Adam Laurie RFID Hands Free Credit Card Theft A demonstration given at the 2008 Black Hat Conference and geek fest should give us pause and reason to consider the possible or probable misuse of the new smart chip enabled credit cards.
A volunteer called from the audience was told to leave his smart card inside of his wallet. With the card “safely” inside the volunteer’s wallet and pants pocket, Inventor and RFID security expert Adam Laurie read and displayed its contents on the presentation screen, the person’s name, account number, and expiration date – all clearly visible!
He was demonstrating his Python script designed for this and countless purposes.
Consider the possibilities. Criminals will lose touch with old scam methods and only require a bit of technology. A thief can capture the contents of an RFID-enabled credit card just in passing. The same is true for chips implanted in the human body, work access badges, public transit cards, and the new passports in use in more than 45 countries. The medical community has long been interested in implanting information in our bodies, right or wrong. I’ll admit it has been a boon for animal identification…but that’s as far as Auntie Technology is willing to go. With astounding irony, credit card companies seem to be some of the biggest advocates of this technology. The companies argue that it will save time when processing payments with the RFID enabled cards. An amazing display of how things can go wrong can be found on Spanish beaches. Visitors are encouraged to have RFID enabled tags injected into their bodies. The alleged benefit to you being you don’t need to take your wallet to the beach, and merchants can scan your wrist to get a unique ID from which to debit your account for another drink. Of course, someone with the technology to read it can also stroll along the beach and capture it. Lastly, proud inventor Laurie demonstrated how his personal code could be changed, then turned himself into a canine by changing his personal info into a coding sequence reserved for animals. Am I the only one who wonders if it wouldn’t it be just as easy to change it to that of another person? Best news for last! Anyone may obtain the Python scripts free of charge on Laurie’s website. He also sells the hardware necessary to read and write to RFID tags and cards. Tis an ill wind which blows no good. Hal Lindsay and other doomsday writers will finally have reason to renew their wait for the Rapture and count their money, now that the “mark of the beast” is here “Without which, nothing may be bought or sold! “ BOO! Hands – Free Way to Steal a Credit Card and More 
Thursday, February 21. 2008Toshiba had its 15 GB of fame with HD DVDLast week saw just one high-definition DVD released to both HD-DVD formats: a low budget movie about a small town coming together to make a porn flick. With Joe Pantoliano as the village idiot and Ted Danson as town homo, "The Amatuers" was the only film to come-out on both Blu-ray disk and Hi-Def format. According to EngadgetHD's weekly headcount, Sony BluRay increased their lead in releases of HD discs to 444 versus 386 movies. The week saw two Blu-ray DVD releases from Topics and Buena Vista, and one each from Sony and Warner. The names of the blue-ray titles are unimportant when compared to HD's lone offering. Toshiba's fifteen gigabytes of fame (thank you, Andy Warhol) came to an end with the high definition release of "Girls Gone Wild: Baby Bash - Live and Uncensored!" So what if there's no longer a choice in HD formats -- if you're stuck with an obsolete player, you can still choose this week between a new porno title and GGW.
Thursday, January 31. 2008Porn on MY Cell Phone? Yes! The xPhone If you’ve ever been tied up in traffic wondering why the cell phone user next to you in intently staring at his phone, juggling a latte’, and driving with his knees, be happy you can see his hands.
Soon you’ll have little reason to ask what is so important. Let the chips and bumpers land where they may. Likewise, those who would like to see a law on the books which requires a headset in the hopes of avoiding some accidents by avoiding a bit of distraction, will be thrilled to know that not only will there not be laws about such things, but their fellow motorists will be busy flipping back and forth through favorite porn sites! I’m wagering those might be just a bit more distracting than his previous search for numbers in his address book, or online game. Porn and profits go together like the proverbial horse and carriage, and American companies aren’t about to be left behind. When they looked up and realized that pornography on cell phones in Europe will be at $1.5 billion by 2012 with the global market reaching $3.5 billion in 2010. I presume they felt there was a great deal more money to be made by providing distraction for your Friends, neighbors, and fellow drivers – than in simply helping those lost in the cereal aisle by enabling them to make a call home….I assume that is a nation-wide phenomenon? North America generated just $26 million last year. It must make them weep in contrast to the haul Europe is making. Some phone carriers shied away from porn sales. For example, Canada’s second largest phone company Telus Corp. withdrew a mobile porn service after complaints from hundreds of customers and criticism from the Catholic Church. We won’t be following Canada. We mainly only tell them what to do, not follow their lead for cryin’ out loud! This IS good news for those waiting for the realistic sex automatons to become available at Costco at a reasonable price, and phone companies have realized you’ve got to give the people what they want. They did recently tell us we are a nation with ADD, can this be a good combination? New phone systems being built by google have pledged to support any type of mobile software. American carriers had been concerned about offending customers, and the difficulty of keeping underage children from enjoying the expanded services. In spite of these concerns, they won’t be able to be left behind, and those who do not wish to push porn, can at least allow their customers to utilize it…and so the die is cast. I leave it to others to decide whether we are becoming an even more isolated country. Original Reuters title Porn to Spice up Cell Phones
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Wednesday, October 18. 2006Beware the FreeperI had myself one good yuck a few minutes ago. I surfed over to the Modern Library where they have the list of the best 100 books written in English. I need a new book, sadly for the fifth time now, I couldn’t get past page 14 of ULYSSES. That is number one you know. First person Irish ranting and raving! I get enough of that around here so it seems rather dull to me.
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Outsourcing has it’s benefits. Apparently if NASA had sought to build the new space commode for the international space station in the U S of A, it would have cost a lot more than the mere 19 Million the Russians are putting on our tab. Still, I can’t shake the feeling that relations with Russia are at a low point, and what a perfect place to play a practical joke or two hey? No mere golden beauty, as pictured, this toilet works! You can imagine the problems which could occur in zero gravity without some special precautions. First, the depositor must strap in, with leg restraints and thigh bars to keep the space traveler in place.
In the It’s Just What I Wanted Department, a school in impoverished Nigeria received a lovely gift, with all good intentions. They were given 300 laptops, one for each child. That is wonderful, yes? It would be if they had power. On the other hand, they are the first school in the country where each student has his or her own laptop. Some fortunate students have electricity at home, though it is often irregular, those students said they enjoyed browsing the internet and are very happy. In a week those few will all have a MY Space page.Seriously, Nigeria, while the world’s sixth largest exporter of crude oil, has very little electricity, mainly in the cities where it is undependable at best.Most homes and private businesses rely on generators.
I am probably very alone in this, but watching someone else play a video game rates right up there with being trapped into trying to say something nice about someone’s 150 frankly homely baby photos. I’d just rather not.
I am nearly as excited to see Orwell's "1984" to come to fruition, as I am to have a case of Montezuma's Revenge. I know that won't fare well with the techies who have each new gadget and laud every new step we make toward that electronic world. I was torn when Google came out with Google Earth. Pseudo Stalkers were sending me pics of the top of my house, blurry, but accurate.
