ACLU Backs Security Hackers
Posted on March 1, 2007
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Sometimes it does pay to have friends in high places: BlackHat Presenters Threatened with Patent Suit for Exposing RFID Vulnerabilities.
HID Global Corporation has threatened to sue IO Active, a computer security company based in Seattle, with patent infringement if it gives its planned presentation at the BlackHat Convention this Wednesday, February 28, 2007, in Washington D.C. The presentation discusses vulnerabilities of HID RFID cards and demonstrates a handheld RFID cloner developed by the company to highlight these vulnerabilities.
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IO Active has pulled its presentation and accompanying materials.Instead, I will speak at the presentation on Wednesday at 1:45 p.m. in Washington, D.C.
There will be a press conference following the presentation. See BlackHat conference schedule here.
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