Comments on: Dangers of: Remote Working, Passport Counter Signatories, Microsoft Vista http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/09/03/dangers-of-remote-working-passport-counter-signatories-microsoft-vista/ What's going to go wrong in our e-enabled world? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:16:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: wendyg http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/09/03/dangers-of-remote-working-passport-counter-signatories-microsoft-vista/#comment-2334 wendyg Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:47:53 +0000 http://www.blindside.org.uk/2007/09/03/dangers-of-remote-working-passport-counter-signatories-microsoft-vista/#comment-2334 One of the presentations I saw at Defcon - Lukas Grunwald - centered on how to use an RFID passport to alter or crash the underlying database. Personally, I always hated the idea of remote product activation, and I held out as long as I could against moving to products that require it. It just seems to me all too obvious that the time it will fail is at 2am when you're on a plane somewhere and have a deadline. How nice of them to find a new way to feed my paranoia about this kind of thing. wg One of the presentations I saw at Defcon - Lukas Grunwald - centered on how to use an RFID passport to alter or crash the underlying database.

Personally, I always hated the idea of remote product activation, and I held out as long as I could against moving to products that require it. It just seems to me all too obvious that the time it will fail is at 2am when you’re on a plane somewhere and have a deadline. How nice of them to find a new way to feed my paranoia about this kind of thing.

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