The Swipe Data Calculator gets an upgrade from Chad Johnston

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Chad says “The folks who are responsible for the Swipe Toolkit have generously allowed me to make an Open Source version of their Data Calculator project. The Data Calculator is an attempt to educate people that their personal information is valuable and should not be given away. The folks who created the original calculator referenced a large number of commercial sources to determine the worth of bits of data - they did all the heavy lifting.

Currently, you can run the OS Data Calculator through Java Web Start providing you have Java 5 or higher. More releases are planned.”

Cool, thanks Chad!

Add comment Datestamp: August 23rd, 2006

How to Hack a RFID tag in US Passport or Use it as a Trigger

Researchers: E-passports pose security risk | CNET News.com
At a pair of security conferences here, researchers demonstrated that passports equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID) tags can be cloned with a laptop equipped with a $200 RFID reader and a similarly inexpensive smart card writer. In addition, they suggested that RFID tags embedded in travel documents could identify U.S. passports from a distance, possibly letting terrorists use them as a trigger for explosives.

Add comment Datestamp: August 10th, 2006