How RFID hackers can steal gas, cars, and office access

More on the wonderful world of RFID.

How RFID hackers can steal gas, cars, and office access: "Cory Doctorow: Annalee Newitz has a great feature on RFID hackers in this month's Wired -- she tells the story of various RFID hackers who exploit vulnerabilities in RFID tags to hotwire cars, steal gas, break into your office, and get up to other naughtiness:

James Van Bokkelen is about to be robbed. A wealthy software entrepreneur, Van Bokkelen will be the latest victim of some punk with a laptop. But this won't be an email scam or bank account hack. A skinny 23-year-old named Jonathan Westhues plans to use a cheap, homemade USB device to swipe the office key out of Van Bokkelen's back pocket.

'I just need to bump into James and get my hand within a few inches of him,' Westhues says. We're shivering in the early spring air outside the offices of Sandstorm, the Internet security company Van Bokkelen runs north of Boston. As Van Bokkelen approaches from the parking lot, Westhues brushes past him. A coil of copper wire flashes briefly in Westhues' palm, then disappears.

Van Bokkelen enters the building, and"