Weekly Newswire August 13th, 2008
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Massachusetts sues to halt Defcon subway card hacking
CNET News - ...attacks to completely break the CharlieCard," an RFID card that the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority uses on the Boston T subway line. ...
What's Brewin: An RFID Game Plan
Nextgov - The budget, as far as I can determine, primarily covers installation of a passive RFID infrastructure -- which scans tags placed on cases and pallets ...
Researchers Work on Using RFID to Calculate an Item's Carbon Footprint
RFID Journal - A demo of the prototype RFID system determining a product's carbon footprint. If individual items or cases of items can be identified, it would be possible ...
RFID goes prime time in Beijing Olympics
CNET News - Despite the Chinese government's current uptight security measures, the RFID chips embedded in Olympics tickets will be not carrying personal information. ...
