Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA
On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 12:03, Major Variola (ret) wrote: When you get your driver's license, you should run a magnet over it to keep iron oxides from staining your wallet. And apparently you should now microwave it to clean those DMV-employee pathogens from it. Then it will be safe to carry, and you can see for yourself what it tells everyone else ---part of the definition of safety. And rub that funny black and white smudge thing with nail polish remover -- looks like someone with wet nail polish was handling the card, and you don't want that smudge to cover up whatever was written under it.
Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA
At 10:57 PM 10/8/04 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote: At 04:35 PM 10/7/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: A defense is a metal board in a wallet, close to the RFID chip's antenna. It is readable when the licence is taken out of the wallet. When inside, the antenna is quite effectively shielded. Tinfoil Wallets, anybody? :-) When you get your driver's license, you should run a magnet over it to keep iron oxides from staining your wallet. And apparently you should now microwave it to clean those DMV-employee pathogens from it. Then it will be safe to carry, and you can see for yourself what it tells everyone else ---part of the definition of safety.
Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Sunder wrote: So the cops and RFID h4x0rZ can know your true name from a distance. and since RFID tags, are what, $0.05 each, the terrorists and ID counterfitters will be able to make fake ones too... Whee! At 04:35 PM 10/7/2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote: A defense is a metal board in a wallet, close to the RFID chip's antenna. It is readable when the licence is taken out of the wallet. When inside, the antenna is quite effectively shielded. Tinfoil Wallets, anybody? :-) Actually, does anybody know if metallized mylar would do a good job of blocking RFID readers, or if that carbon-fiber insulating cloth that's useful for RF-shielded rooms would work well enough? Also sounds like a good reason to carry a Rivest RFID blocker in your wallet. Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA
Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tinfoil Wallets, anybody? :-) My wallet is a metal cigarette case. It's quite effective at blocking RFID, proxcards, c. Plus, it's chic enough that almost no one considers the paranoia aspect. -- Riad S. Wahby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFID Driver's licenses for VA
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Sunder wrote: So the cops and RFID h4x0rZ can know your true name from a distance. and since RFID tags, are what, $0.05 each, the terrorists and ID counterfitters will be able to make fake ones too... Whee! Given the power requirements for doing anything more than dumb sequence repeat, I'd worry about the potential for replay attack and licence cloning. Make a proof-of-concept device early after they start rolling the scheme out, publish on Slashdot, and see them retracting it as fast as they were deploying it. A defense is a metal board in a wallet, close to the RFID chip's antenna. It is readable when the licence is taken out of the wallet. When inside, the antenna is quite effectively shielded. As a bonus, for many people this method can be seamlessly integrated to their mode of the document usage (leaving the privacy implications of the legitimate readers aside for now, talking about the unauthorized remote readers only here).
