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RE: RFID World Still Reacting Strongly To Virus Research
From: "Kohlenberg, Toby" <toby.kohlenberg () intel com>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:55:01 -0800
-----Original Message----- [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Nick FitzGerald Richard M. Smith quoting: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleI D=183700423 <<snip>>"RFID has security challenges," Ashton admits. "This isn'tone of them."This is a far fetched scenario requiring many improbablesecurity holes toline up just so."Funny -- that was the official line at MS until sometime around 2001 when it realized that it was not just a bad series of coincidences that had led to all the bad stuff we were seeing due to all those "improbable security holes" lining up just so.
You know, I agree they are probably discounting something they should pay attention to, but I have trouble seeing how this is different than any other data storage device.... Sure they shouldn't trust that their RFID tags are secure, but since when is this something new? It just means they need to write decent applications, what's the news about that? toby _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- RFID World Still Reacting Strongly To Virus Research Richard M. Smith (Mar 18)
- Re: RFID World Still Reacting Strongly To Virus Research Nick FitzGerald (Mar 18)
- RE: RFID World Still Reacting Strongly To Virus Research Blanchard_Michael (Mar 21)
- Re: RFID World Still Reacting Strongly To Virus Research Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 19)
- Re: RFID World Still Reacting Strongly To Virus Research Lionel Ferette (Mar 20)
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- RE: RFID World Still Reacting Strongly To Virus Research Kohlenberg, Toby (Mar 18)
- Re: RFID World Still Reacting Strongly To Virus Research Nick FitzGerald (Mar 18)