pussies

well hows that for pussy cats.
many many people that expose how insecure things are have never been prosecuted for it, take the latest RF ID, the Massachusetts case ( http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/11/massachusetts-tries-silence ) and later another judge had it removed, where the 3 guys from MIT were issued restraining orders and later were removed by another judge because they have the right to show how weak the product is. because it is deserves to be public knowlage companies cant hide vulnerabilities to protect their products, that is called fraud and also unsafe buisness practices. so the real question is how much were the mythbusters team paid to be quiet and act all scared for legal ramifications.
SO that makes me wonder if 3 guys from MIT with little cash can stand up to big companies, why couldn't Discovery tell the idiots to go forth and multiply???? Because mythbusters took a dive in the 4th round for a healthy sum of cash
If this was common, microsoft would be sueing everyone for looking at the shoddy windows code, when people look for vulnerabilities, they are published all over the net. and for good reason this is incentive enough to FIX them.

Myth busters took a nice fat cheque I bet

finger print locks

They did once one about those finger print door locks and was disturbing how easy is to fool the damn thing, and RFID may be the same.

The amount of lawyers and representatives on the said meeting may show how true is this "myth". (well, just google for british passport hack ans you will have the answer)

what was that about "free speech"?

so much for whatever amendment it was.

Better not to air

I have worked with rfid and from where im looking it, there seems to be no security in most currently used applications.

It is better not to air the show. After the airing the would be a lot more rfid abuse. Rfid stuff kit cost next to nothing anyways.

commentors are off the mark

This isn't about censorship, its about business. They didn't take a big cheque to keep quiet, but rather wanted the cheques from their advertisers to continue, as they should. This isn't PBS nor the BBC. This is commercial television that depends on its advertisers to stay on the air. Also, these guys are scientific entertainers not journalists. It's not their jobs to preserve society.

If anything, they've started the fire to smolder. All the fuel is there for someone else *cough* journalist* to take it from there.

Info

Hey, if you want freedom you don't goto the USA, try cuba, that's a good 50% better already than the US quaintly enough.

Since I'm in the west myself I'm forced now to say "china is bad, russia is bad, putin is bad, iran is bad, venezuela is bad", that way I'll be safe, thanks for your understanding.
Oh additionally since I'm in the EU I'm forced to add "muslims are so lovely and darling, yay, and so damn peaceful and a swell decent understanding group of people, double yay" plus "bush isn't an lame-ass idiot, and vista runs flawlessly and always has"
I think I covered most of the minimum requirements to be 'in good standing' now.

Duh , er.....

ANYTHING that can be encrypted, or ciphered CAN and WILL have it's methodology broken by someone else, or many others. Period, end of story. Never gonna change. It's in the very nature of the design. You have to design a cipher system of some sorts that has a way to be read again by some other person(s). Hence every information security measure is designed to be undone. It's only a matter of time.

Bullsh!t!

That sucks. Maybe Penn & Teller will look into it.

This is a bit like the deal with analog cellphones - rather than admit that they were simply two-way radios with no reasonable expectation of privacy, the industry lobbied, and got, a ban on scanners that covered the cellular bands.

Quantum_cryptography ftw!!!

Evolve already!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography#Prospects

it's not censorship...

You guys should really find and watch the movie "Good night, and good luck." (2005) You might learn a few things about how the media control themselves!

It's about auto-censorship in time of crisis by the media.

That was the reason long-forgotten that the media should'nt merge and become few when critical informations need many sources to have a free world...

Really?

Companys are above the law. I can't believe the actually have to power to keep consumers blind to how insecure RFID is.

RFID SchmarFID

I saw a demonstration at DEFCON in 2007 of a guy turning his (albeit temporarily mounted) on-person RFID device into his cat, and then his cat's device into him. It was ridiculously easy, with a few boxes and coils. He also demonstrated how "secure" RFID tags in a passport were encrypted by keys such as the user's birth date, which was plainly printed on the passport itself! RFID (at least in its current form) is nothing but feel-good security theatre, and attempts to "protect" it are a crime.

why axe it

All the info is already on the net so axing the epsode will not make much difference, all they have done is make it a more popular item to google for . There are some great video,s on youtube as well.

Sigh

Yeah OK joe, we'll put quantom encryption, which is theoretical and for point2point, on creditcards and security badges, at a cost of no more than $2 per item, OK, sure.

Good thing we are all CEO's of VISA and MASTERcard here so we can get right on it too.
Although it's more likely to work if we were scenariowriters for SciFi movies targeted at a not too techsavvy audience, or perhaps a techarticle on the BBC :X