RFID Guardian Protects Your Privacy 65
An anonymous reader writes "A new device devised by Amsterdam graduate student Melanie Rieback is designed to serve as a portable firewall for RFID tags. The portable battery-powered RFID Guardian uses an access control list to filter RFID queries, blocking queries that aren't approved. Rieback, who is also known for being the first researcher to develop a proof of concept RFID virus, hopes to offer version 3.0 of the RFID Guardian to the public at cost."
proof of concept RFID virus (Score:3, Funny)
What would really be fun (Score:3, Funny)
Put it in your pocket and then walk down the aisles of your local WalMart.
Even simpler blocker (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What would really be fun (Score:3, Funny)
Your RFID reader would read various tags while you walk down the aisles of a store. Then, while you are near the checkout line, it would transmit them to a reader (it would have more distance than a passive tag) and provide the ids it read to the reader as if it were a tag. Someone standing in line to buy $25 worth of purchases would find the store rang it up to include two or three tvs, stereos, a dozen pairs of shoes,
They would, I assume, notice that something was wrong and might have to ring them all up several times before you move away and they get the correct value.
Re:Back-compat? (Score:3, Funny)