Adam savage why rfid

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MythBusters co-host Adam Savage is stepping back from public comments suggesting that legal counsel from several credit card companies led the Discovery Channel to pull the plug on an episode dedicated to security holes in RFID. At the Last HOPE conference in New York in July, Savage told a crowd of several thousand people that his theory on why MythBusters had not gone forward with a planned episode on RFID radio frequency identification hackability was that on a conference call to discuss the matter with technicians from Texas Instruments, the lawyers for the credit cards companies had put the hammer down on the show.

Put your boots on men,there's alot of bullshit. Who in the world has the authority to surpress an episode on RFID? My guess is Discovery just won't do any serious topics. I'm sure some secret service will always want it possible to hack into peoples lives anyway. Actually people can be tracked even without any hacking. Hey, I remember when these parts came out.

Engineers were commenting on how easy it is to read them and reprogram them. They are not safe by any means. Of course, it is better than a bar code.