Hope2601 Pt 10, Adam Savage and "The RFID Censorship Question" www.HOPE.net

Adam Savage answers a question about RFID Censorship after his talk on his Fascination with the Dodo Bird at the Last H.O.P.E. Hacker Conference (www.HOPE.net) which took place on July, 18-20 2008 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.
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Mythbusters Host Retracts RFID Censorship - Mythbusters host Adam Savage is retracting comments he made at a hackers conference where he said an episode exposing security flaws in credit card RFID technology was squelched by credit card company lawyers. In a new statement Adam says, " If I went into the detail of exactly why this story didn't get filmed, it's so bizarre and convoluted that no one would believe me, but suffice to say...the decision not to continue on with the RFID story was made by our production company, Beyond Productions, and had nothing to do with Discovery, or their ad sales department."
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Steven Levy gave the keynote address. Kevin Mitnick, Steve Rambam, Jello Biafra, and Adam Savage of MythBusters were also featured speakers at The Last H.O.P.E. Hackers Conference. The name referred to the expectation that this would have been the final H.O.P.E. conference due to the scheduled demolition of its venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania. www.TheNextHOPE.org is scheduled for Summer 2010.

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Includes the 'infamous' new-yourk point-of-view on 'unglazed' ceramic tiles for ovens to make 'better pizza', OMG!!!

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[peterpanmannnn]

No one gives a shit about your pizza. Seriously? Bring back the RFID chip guy.

[piazzaj88]

Just made the last 30 seconds of this video my ringtone.

[mibars]

But it won't help when somebody steals your wallet or card alone, as RFID transactions are excluded from customer protection in banks - Thef can make series of small sum transactions (in Poland: 50zł, it's ~$15), limited only by max allowed number of this transactions per day (eg. 10 = 500zł!). That's because this transactions does not require additional verification like PIN or signature - At least in Poland even if you buy something for 1zł you need a signature, PIN, or CVV number.

[Pita Giros]

or you can have an aluminum-coated wallet. I made one for myself :) Just a single layer of aluminum is enough to block 99% of radio waves. Kind regards.

[mibars]

As for now in Poland is hard to get a credit or debit card without RFID, you simply have no choice. And it is impossible to remove chip, it's same chip as used for normal card operation, you can only drastically decrease RFID performance by cutting an antenna - It still works but needs very strong signal to operate.

[u2be4mike]

cool! but shut up lady and sit down, seriously

[Spike50161]

whats to stop indipendant people doing there own research into RFID's.....Free will.......

[Cieloroyal]

sKVj2V4-yPE#! - heres the implantation of the device smdh

[Foxstab]

You're taking it extremely out of context.

[Emmet Brown]

bio-warefare? Just curious.

[Kamagel007]

that lady sounds super fat