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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[Could someone please explain this clearer to me?? Thanks..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashley Jones]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Ashley Jones RFID tags are easily counterfeited by copying information and putting it on counterfeit tags. These researchers discovered that every RFID tag has a minimum power level of signal to which the RFID tag responds, and these minimum power levels are unique to every tag. That way, when someone makes a counterfeit tag, it has the same information on it, but can be identified as counterfeit because its minimum power level is different.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[saspr]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Ashley Jones I'm guessing this relies on small variations in the finished RFID tag, which are byproducts of the imperfect manufacturing process. So they came up with a method that looks at those properties that vary to uniquely identify an RFID tag in a way that can't really be duplicated given today's manufacturing technology.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Mark Thanks guys!! Very Helpful!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ashley Jones]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:20PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[Huh, well this is different. Rather than inventing something new, they figured out that something we already make has a feature nobody knew about before.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Mark Hmm down-ranked for noticing that this breakthrough followed a completely different pattern than we usually see? Odd... I'm not really sure what to take from that.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Mark now you are talking to yourself :P]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[181]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ugh please...<br><br>just tell the Dev team that this will permanantly unlock their iPhone 3gs and watch them find a way to defeat this in 3 days...<br><br>Anything involving electronics and security can be defeated.<br><br>thats why I lock my 72 GTO down with 4 steel Boots on the wheel... they need a crane to steat that mofo.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Name:]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Name: Ahaha that's effing awesome. Do you have pix of ur GTO? I'd like to see it :)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Teerim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[First of all, I don't see why the iPhone needed to be brought into this conversation.  Second, this has NOTHING to do with a software aspect, since it requires physical modification of the RFID tag.  Since these tags are so small, it is improbable (if not impossible) and impractical to take the time and effort to modify this.<br><br>Correct me if I'm wrong here....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[brandon]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Name: Unless they have access to a new physical manufacturing process that can create absolutely perfect(at the molecular/atomic level) replicas of an RFID tag, I doubt it.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:22PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[it was hacked by the time you finished reading the article]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nerd]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@nerd You mean someone came up with a way to make the manufacturing process that accurate??? No way!!! Really?? So we now have the ability to make (the same type of) transistors 100% identical to each other??? Wow!!!! It sure didn't take long. That's amazing!<br><br>[/Sarcasm] : )]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[[ W ]]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[The reason everything can be hacked is because it's created by another person. If one live, thinking human could think of the algorithm to lock down some things, that means there will probably be another human that could attempt to figure the algorithm out. There needs to be a cause for the discovery to occur though, that's why the iPhone constantly gets unlocked and re-locked and unlocked again. I know it doesn't happen THAT often, but when it does, the hackers are back at it right away cracking the code.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Teerim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Teerim Except that this isn't an algorithm. They're basically doing the same thing as an MD5 checker, except on a real, physical object. Without some new way of making hyper-accurate replicas of the RFID tag, theres no way. Basically the reason why this is unbreakable is because it wasn't a human that came up with the algorithm, it was the universe, itself.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Teerim is that why the bible is so damn hard to decode? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valicore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 11:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[ Nope...that's just the nature of fantastical bullshit.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[NikAmi]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 20th 2009 9:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[Didn't the Mythbusters hack RFID's?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[naz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:27PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ok, and will any of these parameters change due to temperature,  distance from reader, position / angle we hold the card to the reader, ect ?<br><br> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[PGP-Protector]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@PGP-Protector That was pretty much my first response.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[uagent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:52PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[The existence of unique fingerprints doesn't, by itself, provide any guarantees of security.  In order for this to be useful, they must show that it is not easy to duplicate a fingerprint.  Of course, that is an impossible task, since you never know what future tech might make this an easy task.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CityZen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 7:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hell no, I won't put an RFID into my body..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 8:23PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Mark <br>The article kinda didn't talk about putting them into your body. At all. Did you think they meant replacing your fingerprints with these? Because they didn't.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[n_shakuras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 9:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@n_shakuras <br><br>Oh no, I meant using this as a grand scheme to put financial information on it so that you one couldn't sell or buy anything without it..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 9:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, logic would state that whatever the degree of differentiation in the power scale, it would be limited to some finite amount. The question I have is to what amount? One billion? One trillion? Once that limit is reached, duplicates will occur.<br><br>Also, theoretically, if this feature is an anomaly due to the imperfect production process, then it is also possible that it could be also be "accidentally" duplicated. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 9:16PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Jim I thought about that too - the imperfection is bound to be repeated eventually, and with how many RFIDs are produced, I can't think it would take THAT long to happen.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Valicore]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 11:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Jim True, there could be some accidental duplicates... but it's really hard to find the exact duplicate for a particular tag that you want to "hack" or copy]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[[ W ]]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 11:24PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[interesting..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Soulsaber]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 19th 2009 11:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[Corsair? Is that you? If yes, I'm one of the Tech Ninjas that made cellphone cloning go away using similar technology. So, hit me on the cell. I got some stuff for you ;^/...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Frankenstein Black]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 20th 2009 3:14AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[I agree that if someone can develop a system or process for using this (or any other)  RFID fingerprint idea then someone can work around it or break it.  However, security is really a balancing act between the value of what you are trying to protect and the costs or convenience of protecting the asset or access.  If this works, then you can probably create a layered approach at little extra cost and probably no extra work by the user.  This is similar to auto safety. You can't completely protect yourself against death or serious injury in a car crash, but seat belts and airbags are still pretty good things to have.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 20th 2009 10:02AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wouldn't each reader have it's own "fingerprint" as well and give different readings for the same chip?  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sean]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 20th 2009 12:46PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Researchers say RFID 'fingerprint' could prevent counterfeiting]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/researchers-say-rfid-fingerprint-could-prevent-counterfeiting/</guid><description><![CDATA[So as manufacturing becomes more uniform as RFID gets widespread, will the "finger prints" become less unique? Unless chaos theory abounds here, uniqueness should dwindle.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[brutek]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Nov 20th 2009 1:11PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
