CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security

[Bob Hubbard]

CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security

Posted by kdawson on Saturday August 30, @06:40PM
from the next-comes-guns-and-money dept.

mathfeel passes along a video in which Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security. "Texas Instruments comes on [a scheduled conference call] along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They [Mythbusters producers] were way, way outgunned and they [lawyers] absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it."

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[Makalakumu]

I don't know how to take this country back. When information is so tightly controlled that a relative side issue regarding RFID is censored by the corporate media...how is anyone going to know anything about the REAL issues surrounding RFID? How is anyone supposed to know anything about anything?

It's only a matter of time before they do away with the internet. This medium is the last hope of freedom...

 

[Bob Hubbard]

The Youtube video was interesting. Seems the CC companies are more worried about people figuring this out, than fixing all the problems with it, and that it's hackble with less than $10 in parts.

 

[Makalakumu]

The CC companies want to keep every citizen in perpetual debt forever. They will flood the market with money until the price of everything rises to the point where you cannot buy anything without bowing down and fellating.

The fact that people can hack the system and screw with it is a good thing. They want everyone to be comfortable and never think. They want us all to participate in this little rat maze they've created for us.

These lawyers are doing protecting their interests on several levels. They block information from the public. They present a false screen of infalliability. They fend off public inquiry...

I wonder how much money it took to buy these people's souls? Oh well, hell, when you can create all the money you want, you can buy anything...

 

[arnisador]

Doors Close on Student Hackers at Las Vegas Conference

What happens in Vegas. . . can apparently be enjoined by a judge in Massachusetts. We learned that much on Sunday when a group of MIT students were prohibited from giving a talk at a computer-hacker’s conference, called Defcon, in Las Vegas. In the talk, the students planned to expose security flaws in the automated fare system used by the subway system in Beantown, and describe how to get free rides.

But the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority seems to have gotten wind of the students’ Vegas plans and filed a motion for a preliminary injunction on Friday, which was granted by a Massachusetts federal judge Douglas Woodlock.

The order has since expired.