Collaborate Disseminate
[Matteo] has been a fan of the Casio F-91W wristwatch virtually since its release in 1989. And not without good reason, either. The watch boasts reliable timekeeping and extremely long …read more Continue reading Adding Smart Watch Features to Vintage Casio
Have you heard about this One? At least three United States senators have, and they want to know what Amazon plans to do with all the biometric data collected by …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: What is Amazon Thinking by Entering the Palm-Reading Business?
Regular Hackaday readers may recall that a little less than a year ago, I had the opportunity to explore a shuttered Toys “R” Us before the new owners gutted the building. Despite playing host to the customary fixture liquidation sale that takes place during the last death throes of such …read more
Continue reading Teardown: VeriFone MX 925CTLS Payment Terminal
RFID payment systems are one of those things that the community seems to be divided on. Some only see the technology as a potential security liability, and will go a far as to disable the RFID chip in their card so that it can’t be read by a would-be attacker. …read more
Continue reading RFID Payment Ring Made from Dissolved Credit Card
Contactless payments are growing in popularity. Often the term will bring to mind the ability to pay by holding your phone over a reader, but the system can also use NFC tags embedded in credit cards, ID card, passports, and the like. NFC is a reasonably secure method of validating payments as it employs encryption and the functional distance between client and reader is in the tens of centimeters, and often much less. [Haoqi Shan] and the Unicorn team have reduced the security of the distance component by using a hardware proxy to relay NFC interactions over longer distances.
The …read more
Continue reading “Borrow” Payment Cards with NFC Proxy Hardware
Contactless payments are growing in popularity. Often the term will bring to mind the ability to pay by holding your phone over a reader, but the system can also use NFC tags embedded in credit cards, ID card, passports, and the like. NFC is a reasonably secure method of validating payments as it employs encryption and the functional distance between client and reader is in the tens of centimeters, and often much less. [Haoqi Shan] and the Unicorn team have reduced the security of the distance component by using a hardware proxy to relay NFC interactions over longer distances.
The …read more
Continue reading “Borrow” Payment Cards with NFC Proxy Hardware