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Malaysia To Introduce RFID Tracking For Every Vehicle ...

Here on Techdirt, nationwide tracking schemes tend to raise a red flag. In Malaysia, by contrast, there seem to be no such worries, as ambitious plans to introduce RFID tagging for all vehicles , reported by The Sun Daily, indicate:

A new vehicle security tracking system suitable for all types of vehicles -- the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) -- will be implemented nationwide by the Road Transport Department (JPJ) by 2018.

According to the article, there are plenty of advantages of doing so:

This new system will enable...

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Related topics : vehicle tracking rfid technology / rfid vehicle tracking system / rfid for tracking vehicles / radio frequency tracking system in your vehicle / rfid tag tracking system

Credit Card Companies Gagged Mythbusters Over RFID ...

Credit Card Companies Gagged Mythbusters Over RFID Vulnerabilities?

from the security-through-obscurity...-and-legal-threats dept

It's amazing to watch just how sensitive some companies are concerning the rather well-known security vulnerabilities associated with RFID tags and smart cards. We've seen time and time again, companies try to suppress such research from getting published -- and every single time, those efforts to suppress the publication of the vulnerabilities backfires , often badly .

But that never...

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Related topics : credit card rfid security / credit card rfid tag / rfid credit card protection / credit card with rfid / rfid credit card