See through walls via wireless network

posted Oct 1st 2009 11:46am by Caleb Kraft
filed under: security hacks, wireless hacks

Seeingthroughwalls

Researchers at the University of Utah have been able to detect movement in a room based on variations in wireless signals. Accurate to about a meter, they are using a 34 node wireless network to do their sensing.  As a person moves, they change the signals, and can therefore be detected. They state one possible application being rescue workers deploying multiple wireless nodes around a building to find people located inside.

[via Gizmodo]

How-to: Read a FedEx Kinko’s smart card (SLE4442)

posted Nov 25th 2008 5:29pm by Ian
filed under: how-to, misc hacks, tool hacks

overview

Our wallets are filling up with SIM and RFID cards that contain hidden information. Using our latest project, the Bus Pirate universal serial interface, we can dump the memory from many common smart cards. In today’s How-to, we show you how to interface common smart cards, and walk you through the data stored on a FedEx Kinko’s prepaid value card.

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