ETech Video Coverage
At ETech 2008 Pablos Holman hacked my iPhone voice-mail and changed my greeting during a session. During that same session (Hackers Built my Motorcycle) he demonstrated how insecure RFID-enabled credit cards can be. Xeni filmed a short segment with him afterwards.
Other BoingBoing coverage:
Technology and the Iraq War: Noah Shachtman at ETech - Turns out on some bases in Iraq you can't read blogs until after 6PM. To get their own access many soldiers have been renting their own satellite dishes.
Vlog (Mark) - Socialbomb, a real-world reputation game - If you want to win at Social Bomb be social!
DIY Drones with Chris Anderson at ETech - Chris Anderson has built his own drone for getting aerial imagery. See it in action as a preview for Where 2.0.
Nikita Chrusov of Soviet Unterzoegersdorf crashes Disney party at ETech - A visiting dignitary is confused by the green pudding (AKA wasabi) and other aspects of a party.
BBtv vlog (Xeni): ATT-NSA whistleblower Mark Klein, EFF legal director Cindy Cohn - It was really great to put a face with the man helped put a stop to the US government's warrantless wiretapping.
We were also visited by Mahalo Daily. Veronica interviewed a number of speakers and attendees including Terry Jones (on influenza), Scott Beale (on virtualization), and Daniel Marcus (on brain imaging).
Also check out Geek TV's coverage. Thankfully they got some footage of Nikita Chrusov's evening performance, Nate True's watch, and the IPRE (an open-source robot project).
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I watched Adam Laurie use a generic RFID reader to get some basic info off of an RFID credit card at Blackhat DC this year (and some good stuff from passports).
https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-08/Laurie/Presentation/bh-dc-08-laurie.pdf
He didn't demo a brute force attack on the encrypted parts of the data but in many cases enough data is unencrypted to make it unnecessary.
Pablos demonstrated that the whole thing is a lot easier if you just buy a merchant's reader appliance on ebay and use that. No need to brute force the encryption because a merchant reader has it built in.
I really enjoyed learning about the new ways
to combat influenza and how it has infected close
to 500,000. people. I am happy to know that
people really care about helping others,
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Doctor [03.29.08 06:34 PM]
How insecure are RFID-enabled credit cards? Great that's all we need is another way to have our credit cards stolen and identity stolen with the latest RFID-enabled credit cards by American Express. You'd think the American Express of all companies would have some security measures installed before delivering these new credit cards to un-savvy consumers. Technology can be really cool but this enhancement is probably just too BLEEDING.