Collaborate Disseminate
With events of all sizes on hold and live sports mostly up in the air, it’s a great time to think of new ways to entertain ourselves within our local circles. Bonus points if the activity involves running around outside, and/or secretly doubles as a team-building exercise, like [KarelBousson]’s modernized …read more
We love writing about DRM here at Hackaday. Because when we do, it usually means someone found a way to circumvent the forced restrictions laid upon by a vendor, limiting the use of a device we thought is ours once we bought it. The device in question this time: the …read more
Continue reading Defeating Fridge DRM With Duct Tape and A Dremel
Join us on Wednesday, June 3 at noon Pacific for the Physical Security Hack Chat with Deviant Ollam!
You can throw as many resources as possible into securing your systems — patch every vulnerability religiously, train all your users, monitor their traffic, eliminate every conceivable side-channel attack, or even totally …read more
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I have some doubts about long range (few meters) RFID cards. As I understand they are UHF RFID cars.
What are the typical brands and their storage capacities?
Can we write something like face pattern on UHF RFID card (to implement access… Continue reading Regarding UHF RFID cards to encode face pattern for access control
I would like to copy a VIGIK RFID badge. It’s MIFARE type badge. I’ve an ARC122 USB reader / writer and my OS is Linux like. I compiled mfoc and mfcuk successfully.
First I tried to copy the badge with mfoc using this command:
mfoc -P … Continue reading How many times is taking mfcuk to find a key
Besides a few stalwart holdouts, most of us have have switched over listening to music in digital form, often via an online stream. As long as no data caps stand in your way, it’s a quick and easy way to listen to your favorite artists or discover new ones. But …read more
Continue reading Queue Up Your Tracks with a Well Placed Hexagon
Smart cards (for instance, public transit cards) are widely used in some countries for authentication purposes at universities and workplaces, so that an authorized person can use a printer or access a room by just putting the card on a re… Continue reading smart card authentication process
Rugby is a chaotic game at the best of times, so it can be difficult to gauge when illegal actions such as forward passes occur. That’s where a new “smart rugby ball” comes in, which is packed with sensors that record its movements.Continue ReadingCate… Continue reading Brainy ball keeps tabs on rugby games
I’ve heard about RFID-shielding wallets and even individual card sleeves, but my wallet has multiple RFID cards in it (credit card, bus card, building entry card), and if I tap my whole wallet on a POS reader to try to pay for a transactio… Continue reading Does having 2 or more RFID-enabled cards in a wallet prevent all attacks?
The government says the wristband isn’t privacy-invading because it won’t track your location, per se; just if you wander from COVID-19 quarantine. Continue reading Location-tracking wristbands required on all incoming travelers to Hong Kong