RFID MythBusting

Presented at DEF CON 17 (2009), Aug. 1, 2009, noon (50 minutes).

This presentation is about challenging many of the popular preconceptions about RFID technology. "Short-range" will be shot down first (I'm aiming to set a half-mile world record in the Nevada desert just before Defcon), "secure" will be busted second (don't bring _any_ RFID tags unless you want them cloned), "immune to electromagnetic pulse weaponry" will fall last (and hopefully most spectacularly). I'll be covering a wide range of different RFID technologies from 125KHz to 900MHz, and releasing a whole pile of source code, schematics, and (with luck) a little magic smoke.

Presenters:

• Kristin Paget - Founder, H4RDW4RE LLC   as Chris Paget
  Undeterred by his previous legal skirmishes, Chris Paget is still having fun playing with magnetic fields and RFID. If you see a tall guy wandering around the con with long hair, high heels, and a pile of home-made RF hardware, there's a good chance that a) it's him, and b) your RFID cards have just been cloned.

Links:

• https://defcon.org/html/defcon-17/dc-17-speakers.html#Paget
• https://infocon.org/cons/DEF CON/DEF CON 17/DEF CON 17 video and slides/DEF CON 17 - Chris Paget - RFID Mythbusting - Video and Slides.mp4 (Video and Slides)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMm4g5yhDoY

Similar Presentations:

• DEF CON 21 (2013) / RFID Hacking: Live Free or RFID Hard
• Black Hat USA 2013 / RFID Hacking: Live Free or RFID Hard
• Diana Initiative 2023 / Tag, You're It: How to Get Started with RFID