[Publib] RFID: Finked on by my garbage

[Judy Anderson]

Along a similar line, Mythbusters (a TV show) was testing security 
technology. They tested fingerprint systems that allow access to buildings. 
The one they tested was very fancy, even able to sense if there was pulse 
and galvanic skin response to make sure it was real. They easily broke it, 
even with somthing as simple as a photocopy of a fingerprint attached to 
their own finger. I wonder how much information someone could gather by 
doing that and going on a computer. (Yes, I know they can do the same thing 
with a bar code, if they have the whole number.)

Things are not as secure as we think.


Judy Anderson
Oregon
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>From: Joe Schallan <jbsphx at cox.net>
>To: Publib Publib Discussion <publib at webjunction.org>
>Subject: [Publib] RFID:  Finked on by my garbage
>Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 11:03:03 -0700
>
>http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060831_technovelgy.html
>
>The author of this piece missed the use of RFID on library
>materials, surprisingly.
>
>Government or business always has a perfectly reasonable
>explanation for intrusion, but when do their methods cross
>a line?  Would you find government surveillance of your
>garbage spooky and unsettling, even if you were told it
>was merely being done to better manage the flow of
>materials going into landfills?
>
>We want to use RFID tags to better manage the handling
>of library materials.  But with any technology the most
>pertinent questions may be What are the unintended
>consequences of its use?  and How may it be abused?
>
>--Joe Schallan
>    Phoenix
>
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