ShmooCon 2009: Chris Paget’s RFID cloning talk

February 16, 2009 By 13 Comments

When we first saw [Chris Paget]‘s cloning video, our reaction was pretty ‘meh’. We’d seen RFID cloning before and the Mifare crack was probably the last time RFID was actually interesting. His ShmooCon presentation, embedded above, caught us completely off-guard. It’s very informative; we highly recommend it.

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Cloning and modifying E-Passports

September 30, 2008 By 8 Comments

[THC/vonJeek] have released an application that allow you to backup and modify E-Passport data.  Check out the video of Elvis checking in at the airport.  Apparently there is no way for the machine to know if the passport has been tampered with.

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