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MythBusters rolled on RFID security

This week's edition of the Risky Business security podcast takes a look at BGP insecurity and also explains why the MythBusters TV show pulled a segment on RFID security

Patrick Gray

The feature topic of this week's Risky Business is BGP insecurity. There's been some renewed hysteria around BGP and we'll be getting to the bottom of it with Danny McPherson, Arbor Networks' Chief Smart Guy. As it turns out, you really, really just can't trust Internet routing.

There's been a lot of news about RFID and contactless RFID insecurity over the last few months, and some very interesting video footage from the HOPE conference in New York has surfaced. It turns out a proposed MythBusters segment on RFID security was nixed when the credit card companies called in the lawyertrons to heavy Discovery Channel. Hear the show's own Adam Savage address HOPE back in July.

This week's show is sponsored by RSA security -- they slice, they dice, and they know Alice and Bob's dirty little shared secret. RSA Security's Greg Singh will be along in this week's sponsor segment to have a chat about the MIFARE snafu, key management and other geeky crypto stuff.

And as always, ZDNet Australia's Munir Kotadia, will be along with the week's news headlines.

 

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I loved the show Mythbusters. Sorry to see it end. But they have done on lot of mythbusting security methods and as far as I have seen they all failed with a little effort. So now we know ways around them. This was probably the same thing. They showed us how vulnerable we are and they were pressured not to air the episode for fear of a massive data breach.
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