A hacker walks around San Francisco cloning RFID passports
Chris Paget has been driving around San Francisco streets, reading passports and all kind documents with RFID chip, with a Motorola RFID reader of about 250$.
In less than 20 minutes he found and cloned two passports, demonstrating that the RFID technology is very weak.
Radio-frequency identifiation (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. The technology requires some extent of cooperation of an RFID reader and an RFID tag.
An RFID tag is an object that can be applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.
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