Tag: RFID

Will RFID force Consumers towards Personal Identity Management?

In a recent blog post (E-Passports equals E-pportunity for Hackers?), I touched on the security and privacy issues arising from the use of RFID technology in the context on the new e-passports. Now Scientific Technology Options Assessment (STOA), an arm of the European Parliament, has released a report (RFID and Identity Management in Everyday Life)

E-Passports equals E-pportunity for Hackers?

Electronic passports are not only insecure, they can be used as tools to commit fraud and mischief. That is the contention of an RFID expert that has been investigating the new digital passports and passport readers that make up the next generation of our most definitive identifying document. Wired news covered Lukas Grunwald’s exposure of