RFID Safety

Thursday, March 16. 2006

So how safe are these RFID tags we are supposed to use from tampering?

RFID Viruses and Worms

Up until now, everyone working on RFID technology has tacitly assumed that the mere act of scanning an RFID tag cannot modify back-end software, and certainly not in a malicious way. Unfortunately, they are wrong. In our research, we have discovered that if certain vulnerabilities exist in the RFID software, an RFID tag can be (intentionall) infected with a virus and this virus can infect the backend database used by the RFID software. From there it can be easily spread to other RFID tags.

So, an infected tag could infect the whole database of livestock the USDA wants to set up and comprise the database in some way. Really makes you feel safe about the whole system doesn't it.

An ear tag never stopped a disease, but it gives the terrorists another way to harm our food supply.

Posted by Sarpy Sam in ID Methods at 02:36 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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