This technology as they said is already in Japan and Malaysia. When I lived in Japan for a year late 2008 into 2009, most people's cell phones were already equipped with this technology. They would swipe their phones over to enter train turnstiles for fare, purchase food, send payments, etc. When I read up on it there in Japan it was actually very secure due to all the encryption on it. As such, there are safety protocols tied to it. It was rather neat, actually to NOT have to carry anything but your phone. They would even unlock car doors and start cars. It was quite impressive.
It sounds neat, and it might even be secure at the moment, but you need to realize that every encryption security method is cracked. And by the time you hear about it publicly it's probably been well-known to the "bad guys" for quite some time. This is a problem with digital data in general, but it's worse when wireless because these IDs can be sniffed out by someone you've never even interacted with, just walking around in public.
Read this Defense Industry Daily article (link below). RFID Crack Affects 2 Billion Smart Cards. Yes, that's Billion with a B.
Note the quote: "? the downside of hardware-based security systems is the expense and time involved in changing them." From a practical standpoint (time/money), it will take years to backtrack and fix the security problems; in the meantime there are facilities and massive amounts of data at risk. The next version of security will eventually face the same problem.
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http://spychips.com
also see the movie, America: Freedom To Fascism.
You all have been warned... What's next, being chipped like a dog?
This technology as they said is already in Japan and Malaysia. When I lived in Japan for a year late 2008 into 2009, most people's cell phones were already equipped with this technology. They would swipe their phones over to enter train turnstiles for fare, purchase food, send payments, etc. When I read up on it there in Japan it was actually very secure due to all the encryption on it. As such, there are safety protocols tied to it. It was rather neat, actually to NOT have to carry anything but your phone. They would even unlock car doors and start cars. It was quite impressive.
It sounds neat, and it might even be secure at the moment, but you need to realize that every encryption security method is cracked. And by the time you hear about it publicly it's probably been well-known to the "bad guys" for quite some time. This is a problem with digital data in general, but it's worse when wireless because these IDs can be sniffed out by someone you've never even interacted with, just walking around in public.
Read this Defense Industry Daily article (link below). RFID Crack Affects 2 Billion Smart Cards. Yes, that's Billion with a B.
Note the quote: "? the downside of hardware-based security systems is the expense and time involved in changing them." From a practical standpoint (time/money), it will take years to backtrack and fix the security problems; in the meantime there are facilities and massive amounts of data at risk. The next version of security will eventually face the same problem.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/...t-Cards-04991/
Don't be so enthralled with these little conveniences. There are serious downsides to consider.