RFID Firewall  RFID is the concept of putting a little wireless
chip into pretty much everything allowing you to track and
identify items with a computer and an antenna. Chances are your
credit card has one in it, and there’s one in your passport if
you’ve gotten it in the last few months. There’s the potential
for some interesting things with RFID, (you may remember the
commercial of the person walking through the grocery checkout
without stopping) but the control is lost to the user since
anyone with a reader nearby can check all your RFID tags at
will.  So three researchers from the Netherlands submitted a
paper about an RFID firewall. It queries all your currently held
RFID chips and proxies answers to any other readers, including
giving no answer at all. It gives the fine grained control back
to the user and is a very, very interesting development in
personal privacy in an world where everything has a chip and is
wireless.  2 thoughts on “RFID Firewall    1. This is pretty
cool. Especially the way they j