Sandra Gittlen
Sandra is a columnist for Computerworld.
Articles by this Author
Six Hours to Hack the FBI
- By Sandra Gittlen
- Published 05/27/2008
- Identification & Tracking
- Unrated
Note from the editor: This article points out how vulnerable a single database used for RFID purposes could be. If the FBI with all their sensitive information and securities can be hacked, how much worse would it be to each individual if they could also gain access to all your banking and financial accounts, medical records and prescription drugs, criminal records, education and job history, phone records, e-mail account access, what type of car you own and where you drive it, right down to what brand of toothpaste you use, movies you watch, and book you read - all in one fell swoop? Do you REALLY want this type of information for everyone in that same database? (Except of course the elites who seem impervious to all sorts of laws.) By our government's own admission, a database such as this would not be 100% accurate - even at 99% accuracy it would cause untold miseries for hundreds of thousands of citizens.
