Implanted VeriChip RFID Tag Cloned

[thebobman]

From Reuter's Blogs

Two presenters demonstrated the electronic equivalent of making a copy of an implanted RFID or radio frequency ID chip at the HOPE Number 6 conference in New York City.

“This is the first time someone has cloned an human-implanted RFID chip,” Newitz said. “Since I have been chipped Jonathan refers to me as an implanted pet.”

Newitz said she has an RFID chip implanted in her right arm manufactured by VeriChip Corp., a subsidiary of Applied Digital.

“Their Web site claims that it cannot be counterfeited — that is something that Jonathan and I have shown to be untrue.”

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Companies need to stop passing off RFID tag technology as secure. Once they do that people will realize that they're just glorified UPCs (which could be cracked with a steady hand, a pencil and a scrap of paper, I might add) and stop trying to figure out new and exciting ways to cram them into everything.

[djmarkpaul]

[Goat]

They had a huge thing about rfchips in scientific american or popular science a couple months back. The article pretty much said that rf chips are implanted in almost everything, to give company's a clue to what is selling to certain demographics and how privacy activists have been shitting bricks for a while now.

Give me a sec to try and dig it up, it was a good read. It went on to say that you can actually short out or block rf signals using a cell phone.

[thebobman]

people go ape about RFID tags being in everything, but c'mon, there's UPCs on everything, all that RFID tags have going for them is that they can work off proximity.