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According to 2600 News, 1,500 attendees of this years Last HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) hacker conference will be tracked via RFID in a large social experiment which will include games focused on RFID technology. From the press release:
“Players will seek ways to protect their privacy, find vulnerabilities in the tracking system, employ data mining techniques to learn more about other participants, and choose how much personal information they will disclose in order to play.”
Cool stuff…if you are into being tracked via RFID! It should be interesting to see some of the results of this experiment from the conference attendees and to see some cool hacks to gather RFID data and ways to protect your privacy. I did an article on RFID awhile back talking about ways to protect your identity using credit card “shields”.
The Last HOPE takes place July 18 to July 20, 2008 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City.
That sounds really cool. RFID is also used at my school (for example to buy soda ^^).
On the other hand, anyone can use your school-card (luckely its prepaid) without a password or something + the soda-machines are hooked to the network, so the question is, is your money stored on the chip or on the network?