Comments on: RFID: Speedpass Hacked

By: Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Cyberwolverines!

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Cyberwolverines! — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:26:06 +0000

[...] Almost every commercial, computer-based system failure follows the same pattern: weak regulatory standards, close-source software, reliance on security through obscurity, and shoddy engineering discovered after the fact. If we required that every widely-deployed computer-based system was subject to regulation and open review, we’d close the kinds of vulnerabilities that have dogged technology like voting machines and SpeedPass. [...]

By: zbtirrell

zbtirrell — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 18:58:00 +0000

I have no doubt someone with medium level computer skills could get themselves free gas for life.

By: Wandering Pig Effer

Wandering Pig Effer — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:14:06 +0000

Ya know, this would be a pretty good scheme if you could get your hands on one of those devices. Most people don’t check their ExxonMobil bill to match up all the times they filled up – if you were careful and used several accounts, you could have free gas for life…

By: Life After Coffee » Mobile Speedpass RFID Hacked

Life After Coffee » Mobile Speedpass RFID Hacked — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:50:24 +0000

[...] Zach reports that a professor at Johns Hopkins University has successfully been able to read, decrypt and forge Mobile’s Speedpass RFID tag after only a close pass with a reader and laptop. [...]