The last few years has seen the introduction large swathes of products with either wireless or contactless technology. While these products are mostly sold on the lofty ambition of convenience this isn’t always how things turn out. Not only do they not always live up to their sales pitch, these smart devices they can also be a security risk too. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags are a way of assigning data to the item they are applied to. This could be in-store security tags or something far more valuable like the information in your passport. Exploiting RFID RFID was once considered…
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