On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:22:14AM -0500, Trei, Peter wrote:
| Some research is being done in RSA Labs to produce more
| privacy-enhanced protocols for RFIDs, but it's a long way from
| publication, and its unclear what would motivate a tag manufacturer
| to include them.
The biggest motivators I can see are law and liability. If you can
make the case to Europe's data protection commissioners that these
tags will be linked to individual information, and can then be used to
track people, then perhaps the tags will include privacy tech of some
sort. (Although Ari presented at FC this year, and pointed out just
how few gates there are to work with.)
The other motivator is liability. If I build the mugger's little
helper, a PDA attachement that scans for real prada bags, then perhaps
the RFID tag will be removed at the counter after the first lawsuit.
(Naturally, we'll sell the mugger's little helper as a tool for
undercover counterfeit investigations. We can't help that the street
finds its own uses for things.)
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
