At 06:16 AM 5/13/2004 +1000, Ian Farquhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would almost bet money that the commercial interests currently
evaluating RFID tags will push for a legislative ban on RFID jamming.
And I'll bet they get it too.
I really won't matter what they prohibit, it will get out into the
You might want to look at the work RSA Labs is doing on 'blocker tags'.
These are special tags which leverage the mechanism used to disambiguate
the presence of multiple tags to make it look as if you are carrying
2^n (n usually 128) different tags at once.
They propose a protocol to make them
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Major Variola (ret) wrote:
| RFID jamming should be very easy and a quite amusing DoS attack
| on commercial targets. Easy because its not frequency hopping, low
| power, and relatively low frequency. Particularly cute would be
| transmitting sex-toy
ASK any Elmer you happen to see,
what's the best jamming, RFID..
(With apologies to the tuna industry and those too young to
know the jingle. Or to know the RF double meanings.)
Interesting cultural reference that goes entirely above my head with a
cute swooshing sound.
Care to explain,
RFID jamming should be very easy and a quite amusing DoS attack
on commercial targets. Easy because its not frequency hopping, low
power, and relatively low frequency. Particularly cute would be
transmitting sex-toy codes intermittently.
Considering the transmitting powers of the tags, an
