08 Dec 2006
RFID Personal Firewall

Now this is an interesting and useful device, which means you can expect government and industry to lining up to prohibit it as soon as production models hit the streets.

Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum and his student Melanie Rieback (who published the RFID virus paper in March) and 3 coauthors have now published a paper on a personal RFID firewall called the RFID Guardian. This device protects its owner from hostile RFID tags and scans in his or her vicinity, while letting friendly ones through. Their work has won the Best Paper award at the USENIX LISA Conference.

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