Credit Cards and RF Chips

[Deviant Ollam]

Re: Credit Cards and RF Chips

don't know if it was about this specific hack or not, but Major was called away from a little mini-session he was giving today at HackCon in order to be part of a radio interview about something recent in the UK. i think this may have been it.

speaking of recent activities from everyone's favorite british agent, after his talk (a terrific distillation of past IrDA/MagSripe/RFID talks) Major did a small workshop which consisted of a lot of scanning tests, many of which involved international passports.

some lessons we learned...

1) some nations do not even properly conform to the US-imposed standards (the USA is among the offenders)

2) it is of course possible to shield a passport using tin foil (and con attendees are the type to do such a thing)...

3) with no preparation and just on-the-fly code modification, Major was able to dump the entire contents of a USA passport, including the digital photograph...

4) the new RIFD enabled US passport does incorporate shielding in its enclosure (which is more than some nations' passports) but when laid at rest on a surface, the manner in wich the document slightly spreads open is enough to compromise the faraday cage...

click to play 1.7 MB XviD video

5) norway is a terrific nation and everyone should visit here at least once.

[renderman]

Re: Credit Cards and RF Chips

/me Shits a brick in excitement

[DaKahuna]

Re: Credit Cards and RF Chips

Outstanding !! Now I feel great for having purchased a Passport holder from the site Thorn provided ! My new passport is expected in the next 30 days. Seems I need it to go to Canada and back.

[Rance]

Re: Credit Cards and RF Chips

Outstanding !! Now I feel great for having purchased a Passport holder from the site Thorn provided ! My new passport is expected in the next 30 days. Seems I need it to go to Canada and back.

Why not make one?

On a sepreate not does anyone realize how sad it is that we're making it so you don't even have to pull out your credit card. We're elimating money, now were eliminating the need to open wallets. Some day I'm going be talking to my grandkids, (hopefully maybe great grand kids) they're going to see a dollar bill stuck on my wall, or in a book somewhere and I'm going to have expain what currency is. The kids are going to be a surprised and ask if they can bring it in for show and tell.

It just sprung into my mind, what happens if you've got more than one credit card in your wallet and you flash it over the RFID reader? Does it pop up all your credit cards and let you select the one you want to send the purchase to?

(p.s. If your a grammer nazi stick it in your ear, I did my best.)