Catchy Headline Is Not Enough

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The article titled My life as a dog: Adventures in RFID research caught my eye because I liked the headline and was curious to see how these two concepts fit together.  It tells how security researcher Adam Laurie cloned his dog’s RFID tag and carried the new tag around in his [...]

¶ Posted November 30, 2007 § RFID, RFID tag, RFID technology, cryptography, security ‡ Comments (1)

P-Words: Privacy and Process

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher  “Are we in danger about talking too much about RFID privacy – and not enough about managing the data? Or business processes?” asked David Bicknell in his RFID blog, Tune into RFID. His recent post called Remember the other P-Word: Process, is on the Computer Weekly website at  http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/RFID-blog/2007/11/remember-the-other-pword-proce.html. Bicknell [...]

¶ Posted November 26, 2007 § RFID, RFID technology, privacy, security ‡ Comments (0)

What’s the Rush?

Contributed by Joanne Kelleher (With thanks to James Marcus) Jim Rapoza, of eweek’s Emerging Technology blog, has put together a list of 10 emerging technologies that also bring new security threats for those that use them. RFID is number 4 on his list. He says “The little radio tags have enabled endless capabilities for tracking [...]

¶ Posted November 8, 2007 § RFID, RFID technology, security ‡ Comments (1)