We're jamming, we're jamming, we hope you like jammin too

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Wed May 12 10:47:36 PDT 2004


At 03:09 PM 5/11/04 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>The second covers a "hacking the system" concept.  I'd considered
>something similar myself, though different in approach.  Rather than
>finding RFID chips and "redistributing" them, why not create
>programmable RFID broadcasters which could spoof other chips, and
>distribute these.  The idea being to pollute any RFID detectors with a
>vast spew of superfluous data.

RFID jamming should be very easy and a quite amusing DoS attack
on commercial targets.  Easy because its not frequency hopping, low
power, and relatively low frequency.  Particularly cute would be
transmitting sex-toy codes intermittently.

ASK any Elmer you happen to see,
what's the best jamming, RFID..

(With apologies to the tuna industry and those too young to
know the jingle.  Or to know the RF double meanings.)





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