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How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8

A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags), with promises of enhanced security and speedy transactions. But on today’s episode of Boing Boing tv, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman shows Xeni how you can use about $8 worth of gear bought on eBay to read personal data from those credit cards — cardholder name, credit card number, and whatever else your bank embeds in this manner. Fears over data leaks from RFID-enabled cards aren’t new, and some argue they’re overblown — but this demo shows just how cheap and easy the “sniffing” can be. This episode is part of our ongoing series of interviews with some of the thinkers, hackers, and tinkerers at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference this year. tv.boingboing.net

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11 Comments

connect that to a smart phone you bastard


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he’s lying. he wants to get near her ass.


supposedly it takes about 25 minutes, with a non supercomputer


Entertaining to watch. Thanks for sharing.


such a bullshit video…firstly the vivotech reader he used is the vivopay 5000 and it costs USD100 at least and if he can get me at USD8 bucks, i’d buy 20000 readers today!

with hardware key encryption there’s no way he can do what he said he could do so fast..maybe with supercomputers…a week to crack 1 card?

what a crap vid ….


wow, now thats what I call an nonobtrusive Ad


lmao dude looks like andy dick


Very cool - who didn’t see this coming?


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