How to hack RFID-enabled Credit Cards for $8 (BBtv)
A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags), with promises of enhanced security and speedy transactions. But on today’s episode of Boing Boing tv, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman shows Xeni how you can use about worth of gear bought on eBay to read personal data from those credit cards — cardholder name, credit card number, and whatever else your bank embeds in this manner. Fears over data leaks from RFID-enabled cards aren’t new …
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God fucking damn it. THe RFID is NOT THE MARK OF THE BEAST, shut the fuck up with your stupid religious beleifs. It is definately meant for control, but they either copied it so you bible idiots would just go with it thinking “the day of reckonning has come so let’s just stand down like the retards we are” or it’s just a coincidence. Quit being idiots and wake the fuck up. We’re in 2010, don’t ya think it’s time to EVOLVE now? Jesus you religious freaks need a brain change.
It’s Radio Frequency Identification. You got it wrong and spelled it wrong. And typically they cannot be read from afar, just a few feet.
@kkirt
stow it.
RFID chips are NOTHING more than a wireless version of the magnetic strip on the back of credit cards, or barcodes. They dont remotely/wireless track your moves, they dont process information, or record anything, they dont use GPS like in a cell phone
RFID chips simply contain a static string of numbers/letters. In order to read an RFID, a scanning device HAS to come within a few feet of it.
By these crazy religious definitions, natural FINGERPRINTS are more like the “Mark of the Beast”. lol
Now you lying. These RFID chips are exactly the same types of chips that the one uses to track animals.
Here is proof. Watch.
/watch?v=Y7aP2vxNB0U
And this one:
/watch?v=HW_PImimbxI
And this one:
/watch?v=vVmnZpKOxoM
So stop purposefully lying to people, or at least get your information straight before reciting whatever the government tells you.
It’s interesting that that when calling us all religious freaks you use the words “God damn it” and “Jesus” to get your point across. Ironic, isn’t it?
God bless you both, regardless of what you believe.
I was not lying at all. And your silly videos make no point at all in calling me a liar. Fail.
These chips CANNOT track people unless you come within a couple feet of a scanning device, which is then waved over the chip to check it’s number.
These are NOT the same as animal tracking TAGS which have batteries in them, and emit a radio single. You are confusing those tags, with the RFID chips we put in pets. Pet-chips cannot track a pet’s movements, they can only be scanned if they are found.
Holy freaking cow! People like you serious do not understand what you are talking about. You have no understanding of these technologies at all.
You’ve simply fell for media sensationalism, and the twisted scare-tactics of conspiracy theorists. Some people purposely twist your religious beliefs to scare you into supporting them.
I watched every video and they don’t actually support a single claim you made.
I’ve worked with these technologies, and I can tell you first hand, you’re simply wrong.
You lied. You absolutely can steal people’s indentity by scanning their chip from many meters away. The government says you can’t do this because of protective sleeves on the chips but you cando it. An ethical hacker proved this, by scanning people’s RFIDs in their driver’s licenses with only $250 of equipment. Here is the video proof here.
/watch?v=9isKnDiJNPk
Stop lying to people.
These microchips were tested on rats before being tested on humans. Many of the rats developed cancer. The researchers said “The transponders were the cause of the tumors,”
“rats injected with microchips sometimes developed subcutaneous “sarcomas” _ malignant tumors, most of them encasing the implants.”
“The tumors “are clearly due to the implanted microchips,”
Search Google for the washington post article titled Chip Implants Linked to Animal Tumors. Then you will see what I mean.
So you believe it’s a good thing if hackers can steal your credit card info or identity by just getting a scanner a few feet from you?
Also just as you can write data to cards with magnetic strips you can write data to some RFID chips. Used in public transport etc.
uh, did I say that?
Of course it’s not a good thing if hackers do that, unfortunately they already do, and probably will forever… But the technology is making advancements in RFID, or similar tech, security wise.
That’s likely the reason Mythbusters weren’t allowed to go into those details on TV. Until the securities of these things can be locked in, it’s probably not a good idea to tell everyone on a massively popular TV show.
You said “RFID chips are NOTHING more than a wireless version of the magnetic strip on the back of credit cards” but in reality the magnetic strips are more secure because you need to be much closer, thus you seem to like a system that allows gathering of info remotely.
Trying to stop information from spreading is never going to work. The correct thing to do would rather be to inform the people affected so they can choose for themselves wether it’s worth the risk of using the technology or not.
I’m not doubting it’s a good idea to inform people and let them choose stuff. But RFID has been around for years, and many important things already depend on it. So unfortunately, while the industry works on better ways to secure it, we still have to deal with a flawed technology. Informing people of it’s hack-ability might cause mass problems, even if it might push for a more secure system, faster. I still think it is in the best interest of everyone, not to TV-air the hacking of these things.
Somebody get that pizza lady away from the microphone.
I think it’s funny how people think you need to be close for rfid or that it’s safe. I can make a scanner with $25 and get all your info if you have a paypass credit card in a matter of seconds and I don’t need to be anywhere near you. As for it being the mark of the beast, that’s your interpretation. Although, they do seem very similar. Seems interesting how the sheep in the population want this technology around. Looks like the wolves can exploit you while they make it so easy to hack.
Seriously with the effin pizza?
weerd pizzza laddy killd it
Get back to the chip. Who cares about pizza. wtf
really based on what tech? you need to be pretty close to read it.
I have’nt seen this video in ages, and as soon as I heard her voice, I said “THAT DAMN CRAZY PIZZA WOMAN!”
I hope these RFID’s get hacked to all hell, and im sorry for those whome get hacked. ill gladly be one of them as long as people will realize how horrible these things are!
i only cared about the pizza part