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RFID vulnerable to attacks, researchers say

Researchers say they have proven that effective attacks can be launched against radio frequency identification tags.

In tests, standard "Generation 1" RFID tags and readers were unable to function after they were overloaded with data, researchers at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, said in a report published this month.

"Vulnerabilities in the newer UHF style of RFID tags have been found and are of concern for anyone trying to implement an RFID system that would have 'mission critical' or human life issues involved in it," warned academics in the SCISSEC research group at the university.

Yet more trouble with the vaunted RFID tags that are supposed to solve all the perceived problems people see with the cattle industry. This is different than the virus I reported on earlier and yet another way the tags fail to meet expectations. How does the government expect this system to work so wonderfully with such problems being found with the tags?

Simple, they don't, they just want to get more fingers in our business, as if they don't have enough all ready, to control us for their benefits.

serf: a member of a servile feudal class bound to the soil and subject to the will of his lord

Yea, that's what they want, serfs. We need to oppose NAIS before we all servile to our Lord the government and do whatever they want.

An ear tag never stopped a disease but it sure exposes the flaws in the tags and our government.

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.