November 4th, 2008
This isn’t amazingly exciting but it’s still pretty cool. The H1 is a tablet PC for medical use and has a touchscreen and protected ports along the side. It is completely cleanable and has no nooks or crannies where blood or sputum can collect in high pressure situations. In fact, there’s a cool little program [...]
October 12th, 2008
By now you must all have seen the Chinese MacBook body spy shots, generally agreed upon by the internets as being genuine. The shot above has generated a flurry of speculation as to what that little taped-up port could possibly be.
October 11th, 2008
If someone asked me to help them steal a gigantic cactus, I’d be like, “Have you ever touched a cactus? Those things are really prickly. Find yourself another cohort, kind sir.” But apparently the giant Saguaro cactus, found mostly in Arizona, can sell for over $1,000 which, in turn, has given rise to a pretty [...]
October 7th, 2008
Details of the much-discussed Oyster card hack have been published and released at a security conference that’s being held in Spain right now. What a long, awkward sentence.
The hack takes advantage of a security flaw in the Mifare Classic RFID chip. This chip is used in, among other locales, the Oyster card that’s used in [...]
September 8th, 2008
So many people have raised the issue of RFID security that it’s practically common knowledge, even among technophobes, that they are easily cracked. Verayo has announced an augmented RFID chip with “Physical Unclonable Functions” (I don’t know whether PUF is pronounced “puff” or “poof,” either way it’s hilarious). PUFs are, I’m guessing, unique IDs that [...]
August 31st, 2008
Adam Savage of Mythbusters basically busted the myth of RFID security - and the Discovery Channel wouldn’t air the segment. Here he talks at the HOPE conference about the experience.
August 27th, 2008
Aluratek announced this week their Tornado plus line of external hard drives which feature RFID security key data encryption. Available in two different sizes, (2.5”/3.5”) the USB 2.0 drives come in capacities from 160GB to 1TB.
By swiping the RFID key by the hard drive, data is encrypted and kept locked up until a second swipe [...]
August 25th, 2008
The ShopLab at the Philips research center is a prototype retail store room used to test lighting technology to improve the sales experience for both the establishment and the customer. First up is the Show Window, a series of projectors displaying on the exterior showcase
windows. These projectors show a rotating collection of images on [...]
August 15th, 2008
Wired’s How-To Wiki has detail instructions on hot-wiring your - or someone else’s - car in a pinch.
The information is pretty straightforward and familiar: remove the cover, identify the starter wires, strip, zap. But with RFID blocks and mechanical theft systems in place you’re pretty much going to get zilch out of a modern vehicle. [...]
August 7th, 2008
The new RFID passports that are designed to catch evildoers can, in a flash, be hacked by evildoers. Using a cloning tool, British researchers embedded pictures of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber onto a set of chips and then tested them. They came up as “real” according to the agency that sets e-passport [...]
