DIY RFID Firewall
RFIDs are working their way into many aspects of our daily lives. But we don’t really have any control over where or when they’re activated. Until now.
As Cory sez on Boing Boing:
The RFID Guardian is a device that detects all the RFID tags on your person (passport, transit pass, bank-card, toll-card, car keys, etc), and interdicts them so that they can’t answer queries anymore. The Guardian can clone all of these tags, and emit their signal on demand, but unlike a dumb tag, the Guardian only emits when you tell it to, and gives you a central way to set and enforce policy about when you will be identified and by whom.
The new version is completely open, and the relaunched RFID Guardian site includes a wiki, source code repository and bug-tracker.
Remember explaining to people how important a firewall was when connecting to the ‘net? Then having to go over and fix their computers – again. My gut feel is it’s gonna be the same thing with RFIDs; especially if some equivalent script-kiddie scene develops.
And remember, these things are built to clone your RFIDs, riiiiiiiight.
Now that’s technology I could use today
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