RFID Site Security Gaffe Uncovered by Consumer Group

[LunaSea]

CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering) says anyone can download revealing documents labeled
"confidential" from the home page of the MIT Auto-ID Center web site in two mouse clicks.

The Auto-ID Center is the organization entrusted with developing a global Internet infrastructure for radio frequency identification (RFID). Their
plans are to tag all the objects manufactured on the planet with RFID chips and track them via the Internet.

Privacy advocates are alarmed about the Center's plans because RFID technology could enable businesses to collect an unprecedented amount of
information about consumers' possessions and physical movements. They point out that consumers might not even know they're being surveilled
since tiny RFID chips can be embedded in plastic, sewn into the seams of garments, or otherwise hidden.

"How can we trust these people with securing sensitive consumer information if they can't even secure their own web site?" asks CASPIAN Founder and Director Katherine Albrecht.

"It's ironic that the same people who assure us that our private data will be safe because 'Internet security is very good, and it offers a strong layer of
protection' would provide such a compelling demonstration to the contrary," she added.

http://krypton.mnsu.edu/~workmj/cryptome.org/rfid-docs.htm