“groovy mother...”

The presentation on hacking the MBTA which was pulled from Defcon due to a court order… but not before the slide deck had been distributed.

“Proximity Based Geek Lovin’” Amazing! Might get these for me & Joy for valentines day.

Social networking for dogs, using RFID collar tags to track “friends”.

FFS. Detailed explanation of the how’s and why’s of reading/cloning a UK RFID-chipped passport — which don’t even have the tinfoil protective cover that US passports will. “‘This doesn’t matter,’ says a Home Office spokesman.”

“This program will exchange crypto keys with the [RFID-chipped] passport and read and display the contents therein, including the facial image and the personal data printed in the passport.”

Joy’s new passport arrived yesterday (Yes, for our international travel on Friday. We Begbies are noted for our inability to have our passports ready far in advance of travel). Luckily, this means she’s avoiding the RFID nightmare for ten years.