Comments on: Hackit: Consumer RFID

By: visje

visje — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:52:36 +0000

hoe gaat het met jou

By: visje

visje — Thu, 28 May 2009 07:51:45 +0000

leuk programa

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:30:07 +0000

All the hacks people think up are a bit limited by the reader’s max range of one inch, they should really improve that, 5 inches would already be much much better.

(Don’t say that’s what she said dammit, this isn’t engadget >:|)

By: #YLS#

#YLS# — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:35:18 +0000

RFID Cat Flap… kind of cool, espically as most at the moment are Magnetic so they have no distinction between them.

Espically as the animal tracking system uses RFID so a collar with it might not be nessecary, but there usually quite weak in power.

By: Laz....

Laz.... — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:04:40 +0000

As far as RFID consumer products… How about an RFID tag under a golf balls skin. True golf ball location up to 30ft, yes? Usually the little sucker is 3 feet away from you under a layer of grass and you never see it.

By: cmholm

cmholm — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:27:15 +0000

I’m seeing smart cat doors querying much smaller collars.

By: DigiHobo

DigiHobo — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 12:11:53 +0000

@rob

The swiss army app of rfid, namely rfidiot by Adam Laurie is here http://rfidiot.org/#Where
There are linux and windows versions.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:09:47 +0000

Does anyone know of alternative software that could be used with this? To use it as intended, you install their software which listens for tags and sends the number to their servers awaiting instructions (what rfid = what “application” or URL). As of my last experience with my tikitag reader, there wasn’t a way to set a function on the tag LEAVING the read-area.. so I gave up on it.

If I could get this thing to work with truecrypt, using the RFID # as the password, and re-encrypting when I leave with my tag, I would feel very Bond.

By: Serge2386

Serge2386 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:04:49 +0000

What about using a hyperscan gaming system for rfid? it has a usb port and runs games on CDs which can be downloaded and burned. I have one of these and plan to experiment soon.

By: ghostDancer

ghostDancer — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:04:44 +0000

The japanese have been using QR codes (or similar) through the phones for buying (metro and train tickets)for quite a lot but never heard about rfid.

By: DigiHobo

DigiHobo — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:50:58 +0000

Japaneese and south Koreans have been using the QR codes for everything from booking tickets to getting coupons.

Would like to see a grassroots barter credit system using this rfid technology. Could become a counter culture digital cash system. Considering that the chips in nfc phones can read tags but also emulate tags, if some sort of authentication could be used to verify your e-wallet. A digital cash system using gsm already exists in Afrika http://webwereld.nl/internationaal-nieuws/55444/zain-launches-mobile-money-transfer-service-in-east-africa.html

By: blizzzarddemon

blizzzarddemon — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:19:32 +0000

Haven’t the Japanese been using rfid’s in cellphones for years now?

By: DigiHobo

DigiHobo — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:54:42 +0000

If they ever get market saturation with these things, like if someone comes up with the killer app for “the internet of things”, I can see this becoming a vector for shenanigans.
“Oh, a touchtag for free cappuccino” scan/url/pwned!

The same has been done in the past with thumb drives.

By: DigiHobo

DigiHobo — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:26:57 +0000

Am more interested in the 2d bar code. Althogh both the rfid and the qr code can save typing a url, the qr code could also act as a fiducial.
ie, scan code, convert to url, pull app or 3d content from web, display 3d content on screen using qr code as fiducial akin to http://hackaday.com/?s=augmented+reality

By: DigiHobo

DigiHobo — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:17:14 +0000

Adam Laurie did a hacktastic talk on these devices at the blackhat conference. He got them when they were called tikitag at a 70% discount before they were rebranded to touchtag. See the video (mostly audio with slides) at https://media.blackhat.com/bh-dc-09/video/Laurie/blackhat-dc-09-Laurie-Satellite-Hacking.mov about 50 min into it. Apparently there’s an emulator mode in the nxp chip..