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'MythBusters' co-host backpedals on RFID kerfuffle
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 08:19:36 -0500
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10031601-52.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea. 0 MythBusters co-host Adam Savage is stepping back from public <http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10030509-52.html> comments suggesting that legal counsel from several credit card companies led the Discovery Channel to pull the plug on an episode dedicated to security holes in RFID. At the Last HOPE <http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-9995518-83.html> conference in New York in July, Savage told a crowd of several thousand people that his theory on why MythBusters had not gone forward with a planned episode on RFID (radio frequency identification) hackability was that on a conference call to discuss the matter with technicians from Texas Instruments, the lawyers for the credit cards companies had put the hammer down on the show. "Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else (co-host Tory Belleci and a MythBusters producer) were way, way out-gunned," Savage told the crowd, "and (the lawyers) absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down, being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it." . And now, even Savage is saying that he got his facts wrong.
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