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How to hack RFID-enabled Credit Cards for $8 (BBtv)

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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 $8 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, and some argue they're overblown -- but this demo shows just how cheap and easy the "sniffing" can be. This episode is part of our ongoing series of interviews with some of the thinkers, hackers, and tinkerers at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference this year. For more episodes of Boing Boing tv, visit tv.boingboing.net.

Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: April 10, 2008 at 2:40 am
Author: boingboingtv

Length: 03:23
Rating: 4.65
Views: 145441

Tags: card  credit  Hack  identity  RFID  sniffer  theft  

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lochinvar00465 (October 5, 2008 at 7:36 pm)
So, if everyone who put in their $1000 savings wanted to close their accounts -- it couldn't be done - Good point. I have had many times that my bank has made it difficult to remove large chunks under some "security" excuse.
sizzlemctwizzle (October 3, 2008 at 5:59 pm)
What a lot of criminals do is get a job as a cashier and keep a portable magnetic strip reader writer at the register. When someone hands them a card they first scan it on the portable read(maybe under the counter) and then on the actual reader for the store. They then go home and apply for similar credit cards and when they receive them in the mail they replace the data with your's, thereby having charging from you're account without your knowledge.
evildwarf (September 29, 2008 at 4:00 am)
Hacking? using a mac? FAKE
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ScientologySucksAss (September 21, 2008 at 4:40 pm)
It's funny cause people are stupid and this is a way of separating the stupid from the smart.
int3rl0per (September 18, 2008 at 9:57 am)
it's not funny because it's true...
343FirNaTine (September 17, 2008 at 9:15 pm)
what is the thing called?
exojjl (September 15, 2008 at 9:41 pm)
yes, and america is good at both fascism and capitalism. we police the world and and coca cola kills tea drinking societies.
exojjl (September 15, 2008 at 9:38 pm)
yes, but you unionize north america. that is america/canada/mexico we will have one big currency.

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