Having covered different facets of RFID, I found logic in covering this news also. Anyway, this blog is supposed to show anything related to RFID.
Let's face. Researchers in Amsterdam have gone ahead and created a device which would prevent RFID tags from being read and this was being done with the aim of protecting users from this technology which was posing a threat to their privacy.
Called the RFID Guardian, it is a PDA size handheld device which warns a person that when a RFID scanner is trying to read a chip by beeping. This device runs on a 550MHz XScale 32 bit processor with 64Mbytes of RAM. The next few months would be spent by the research team on debugging and preparing the device for commercial use.
Though one can question its commerical viability as questioned by an industry observer who says that since RFID is touted to be next big thing in the pervasive computing, all materials in the future will come embedded with RF identification. RFID gaurdian would keep on warning, forcing the user to turn it off to stop the incessant beeping. Well, he goes to propose another model instead - A RFID Jammer.
This device, the size of a fountain pen, could act as a shield by emitting a constant RF jamming signal capable of preventing any RFID reader within a six foot radius from reading any of your RFID data. Now there is a device worth having.
Surely, the scientist from amsterdam is also listening. Expect some surprise too.
Let's face. Researchers in Amsterdam have gone ahead and created a device which would prevent RFID tags from being read and this was being done with the aim of protecting users from this technology which was posing a threat to their privacy.
Called the RFID Guardian, it is a PDA size handheld device which warns a person that when a RFID scanner is trying to read a chip by beeping. This device runs on a 550MHz XScale 32 bit processor with 64Mbytes of RAM. The next few months would be spent by the research team on debugging and preparing the device for commercial use.
Though one can question its commerical viability as questioned by an industry observer who says that since RFID is touted to be next big thing in the pervasive computing, all materials in the future will come embedded with RF identification. RFID gaurdian would keep on warning, forcing the user to turn it off to stop the incessant beeping. Well, he goes to propose another model instead - A RFID Jammer.
This device, the size of a fountain pen, could act as a shield by emitting a constant RF jamming signal capable of preventing any RFID reader within a six foot radius from reading any of your RFID data. Now there is a device worth having.
Surely, the scientist from amsterdam is also listening. Expect some surprise too.
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