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."
Like encryption (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:The advance of technology. (Score:2, Interesting)
For instance, store inventory. Walk down an aisle with an RFID reader - 5 minutes to a perfect count. Walk down the same aisle, with a barcode scanner, and scan every item one at a time - many hours, if yer lucky.
Re:Like encryption (Score:4, Interesting)
With that said, a wireless technology is completely stupid for this sort of application. Any official checking a passport is going to be physically handling it anyway, so what's wrong with requiring a physical connection, like that in a smartcard?