To pass or not to pass

Let's continue with the RFID security issues.

okay, we know that RFID on credit is not safe, but you don't have a RFID credit card, do you think that you are safe? Well read the following and determine it for yourself.

"A German computer security consultant has shown that he can clone the electronic passports that the United States and other countries are beginning to distribute this year. " This story <here> runs 2 years ago!

What is e-passport?
E-passport contains your bio-information in RFID chip that is placed in the passport. All US Visa Waiver Program country passport would be in have that in place and Singapore is one of the country.
The standard is from ICAO BAC International Civil Aviation Organization Basic Access Control which US Feds think that it is safe <Original Story from here>.

Singapore new passport is ICAO BAC standard using NXP chipset <Get more info from here> and <here>.

"Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors has sued a university in The Netherlands to block publication of research that details security flaws in NXP's Mifare Classic wireless smart cards."
<Get the story from here>

Here is the youtube video from the running story that crack the NXP card from london tube (*tube is MRT from UK):



Some more information about the RFID passport.


Can the clone passport be fake proof? Yes for
<Original Story here>

What can we do then? This may help to solve the problem.

Smart or Dumb Card?

The famous MythBuster are not allow to show the security weakness on (credit card that embedded RFID in it) smart card

" Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover, and everybody else... They were way, way outgunned and they absolutely made it really clear to Discovery that they were not going to air this episode talking about how hackable this stuff was, and Discovery backed way down being a large corporation that depends upon the revenue of the advertisers. Now it's on Discovery's radar and they won't let us go near it.



Well luckily we still have BoingBoingTV



Do you know that you are using RFID everyday, and you are also subject to the same security risk?