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7/23/2006 5:34:46 PM EDT
Hi-Tech Cloning


With the debate over genetic cloning in full swing, hackers could not have cared less at a conference in New York City, where two presenters demonstrated the electronic equivalent of making a copy of an implanted RFID or radio frequency ID chip.

The point was to show just how easy it is to fool a detection device that purports to uniquely identify any individual.

Annalee Newitz (left) and Jonathan Westhues (right) presented their experimentations at the HOPE Number 6 conference in New York City in front of a crowd of hackers, tweakers and phone phreakers.

“This is the first time someone has cloned an human-implanted RFID chip,” Newitz said. “Since I have been chipped Jonathan refers to me as an implanted pet.”

Newitz said she has an RFID chip implanted in her right arm manufactured by VeriChip Corp., a subsidiary of Applied Digital.

“Their Web site claims that it cannot be counterfeited — that is something that Jonathan and I have shown to be untrue.”

The pair demonstrated the cloning process: Westhues held a standard RFID reader against Newitz’s arm to register the chip’s unique identification number.

Next, Westhues used a home-built antenna connected to his laptop to read Newitz’s arm again and record the signal off her implanted chip.

Westhues then takes the standard RFID reader and waves it past his laptop’s antenna. The reader beeps, showing Newitz’s until then “unique” ID. “It actually has no security devices what-so-ever,” Newitz said of VeriChip’s claims that its RFID chips can not be counterfeited.

VeriChip spokesman John Procter said in a phone interview that he had read about Newitz and Westhues work, but the company had not been able to review the evidence. He had no specific comment regarding their “cloning” project.

“We can’t verify what they may or may not have done,” Procter said, adding that: “We haven’t seen any first-hand evidence other than what’s been reported in the media.”

“It’s very difficult to steal a VeriChip … it’ s much more secure than anything you’d carry around in your wallet,” he added.


Heh
7/23/2006 5:37:19 PM EDT
[#1]
Here is my look of atonishment, disbelief and suprise --->

"The road to hell..."
7/23/2006 5:44:01 PM EDT
[#2]


Now they'll just show "how" the verichip can be duped and verichip will make sure it really can't be. Nice, real nice.

Let's just all get the mark of the beast.

They try and put that thing in me or my family and they'll get this...
7/23/2006 6:24:43 PM EDT
[#3]
I think we can put the RFIDs  in the same trash can as the "smart guns"
7/23/2006 6:28:38 PM EDT
[#4]
The RFID isn't the anti-Christ.

But there is plenty of chance for mis-use and trouble. At last years' Black Hat they demonstrated an RFID rifle that could read a tag at 150 feet or so. I'm sure next week we'll hear a bunch of new RFID, bluetooth, and crypto cracks.
7/23/2006 6:42:10 PM EDT
[#5]
Anyone ever watch Ghost in the Shell?
7/23/2006 6:44:20 PM EDT
[#6]
Hacked.. I though RFID never had any security to begin with?
7/23/2006 6:48:47 PM EDT
[#7]
No it is the mark of the beast

Im glad they have hacked it, hopefully they will post a how to all over the internet to shut Verichip down



FREE


Quoted:
The RFID isn't the anti-Christ.

But there is plenty of chance for mis-use and trouble. At last years' Black Hat they demonstrated an RFID rifle that could read a tag at 150 feet or so. I'm sure next week we'll hear a bunch of new RFID, bluetooth, and crypto cracks.
7/23/2006 6:49:13 PM EDT
[#8]
7/23/2006 6:54:16 PM EDT
[#9]

Quoted:
No it is the mark of the beast

Im glad they have hacked it, hopefully they will post a how to all over the internet to shut Verichip down



FREE


Quoted:
The RFID isn't the anti-Christ.

But there is plenty of chance for mis-use and trouble. At last years' Black Hat they demonstrated an RFID rifle that could read a tag at 150 feet or so. I'm sure next week we'll hear a bunch of new RFID, bluetooth, and crypto cracks.



Agreed X 1000!

Fuck Verichip.  




-K
7/23/2006 6:56:31 PM EDT
[#10]
7/23/2006 6:57:46 PM EDT
[#11]

Quoted:
Here is my look of atonishment, disbelief and suprise --->

"The road to hell..."


+1 on a lot of different levels.

Bob
7/23/2006 6:57:57 PM EDT
[#12]

Quoted:
Anyone ever watch Ghost in the Shell?


Own it on DVD.  What's it got to do with RFID?  Or are you talking about the TV series they made later?  Never saw that.
7/23/2006 6:58:53 PM EDT
[#13]
Verichip................OWNED.
7/23/2006 6:59:42 PM EDT
[#14]

Quoted:

Quoted:
No it is the mark of the beast

Im glad they have hacked it, hopefully they will post a how to all over the internet to shut Verichip down



FREE


Quoted:
The RFID isn't the anti-Christ.

But there is plenty of chance for mis-use and trouble. At last years' Black Hat they demonstrated an RFID rifle that could read a tag at 150 feet or so. I'm sure next week we'll hear a bunch of new RFID, bluetooth, and crypto cracks.



Agreed X 1000!

Fuck Verichip.  




-K



+1
7/23/2006 7:02:25 PM EDT
[#15]
Through my cold dead dermal layer!!!
7/23/2006 7:09:22 PM EDT
[#16]
I like RFID for tracking merchandise through a store - nothing else. If they can find a way to implement it, RFID may reduce Loss in the retail chain, and may put a cork in the ever-growing business of misdemanor criminal theft.
7/23/2006 7:15:06 PM EDT
[#17]
"....And then there were the roving bands of the cyber chip implanters.
At one time they had been the police, the military, now they were just known as dotgov or implanters."

"After years of having the dotgov implanted cyber chips being hacked, cloned and turned off dotgov came out with new implant chips that, once implanted, would read a persons DNA and register themselves to that unique DNA signature."

"For years people lived off the implant net by useing fake or cloned cyber chips.
With the new DNA chips this was no longer possible."

"At the height of anti-cyber chip implantation demonstrations the dotgov brought out an old weapon called the shotgun.
Instead of filling the hull casing with metal BB's they now filled them with unactivated DNA cyber chips."

"The jack-booted thugs of the dotgov would then walk the streets with handheld DNA chip scanners, and if they came across someone without a working registered DNA chip they would let them have a blast from the shotgun."

"More often than not their aim was good and they managed to implant some people with 20 or more DNA cyber chips."

"Sometimes they would just implant people for the fun of it, just to watch them writhe in pain over being implanted at a close range."

7/23/2006 7:24:42 PM EDT
[#18]
If you play Verichips website backwards you see a picture of Bealzebub!!