Comments on: Mobile RFID scanning

By: 23r2efdw

23r2efdw — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:58:40 +0000

Where is cloning or hacking? Just saying bla-bla
Rubbish

By: sixpackistan

sixpackistan — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:46:12 +0000

there are just so many major flaws in your reasoning that i just don’t have the time to go through them.

By: mababu

mababu — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:38:38 +0000

It’s impossible… The passport used ISO14443.. HF frequency! The reader used by chris paget is an UHF reader.. Mah

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:47:06 +0000

Wait, in america they actually mail passports? WTF.
Unlike america if I want a passport I have to goto town hall in person, seems a bit frivolous to go all insane with RFID and security as they do and at the same time mail passport cards to people.

By: w00tb0t

w00tb0t — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:41:44 +0000

Besides the fact that he has steam installed,……

This is a sweet hack, I wish I had the cash to play with the reader.

The closest I was able to come was to get a parrallax module and a free wired arduino into some poster board that I printed a generic security poster warning users that their tags could be “sniffed” and to keep their badges in their pockets at all times to avoid pictures being taken and a duplicate badge made.

I placed it above the reader and was able to get a few tags. It was quite ironic, unfortunately the lithium cell I used was only able to power it for a few hours, it would be nice to have it passively powered off of the reader itself though.

Did anyone go to ebay to go grab one for $250 like I did?, they are going for $999 and up now. Ill wait for them to come down in price.

By: Æther

Æther — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:57:39 +0000

I published an instructable on shielding RFID tags: http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-RFID-Shielding-Pouch-Out-of-Trash/

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:00:27 +0000

Sounds like stuff from “little brother”, a very good book.

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:02:05 +0000

Got my passport in November of 08 and it never came with such a sleeve, it did come with an RFID, that much I do know….<.<

By: whoosh

whoosh — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:58:58 +0000

It’s Spagett!!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:41:18 +0000

“I never post, but this made me lol
of course it’s mailed to you with the card placed outside of the sleeve.”

btw, something is wrong with this post window, using a foriegn keyboard makes me unable to type in “@” including the “‘s (had to copy paste from notepad)

By: Timothy

Timothy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:17:51 +0000

This is a clear example of why I am opposed to anything RFID enabled that contains sensitive data. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.

By: sal

sal — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:27:59 +0000

i have lined my wallet with copper wire mesh. works great for my passport card and my visa paywave card

By: commo

commo — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:23:28 +0000

My understanding is a static bag will provide enough shielding to stop most rfid signals from emanating. (i keep my toll road pass in a static bag in my glove box after reading something about them being cloneable) Is this true?

By: macgyver

macgyver — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:19:07 +0000

why not track car key rfids?

By: dan

dan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:31:17 +0000

Apparently these aren’t even passports, they are some kind of limited ‘passport cards’ issued to people who live on the borders with Mexico or Canada. They don’t contain any personal information. Each EPC tag has a baked-in unique serial number, yeah, but who cares. We all carry mobile phones!

If you want to feel watched, come live in the UK, where things like this exist:

http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-regional/6111139-1.html