Hi guys, ths is a frightening read. The boffs are using the GPU on a graphics card to run cracking programs.
Read it <a href="http://technology.newscientist.com/arti ... cerns.html" target="_blank">here.</a>
Shields up.
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I think the articles on Biometrics being hacked is of more importance. Password cracking is always going to get easier and quicker and new generation methods will always be coming out.
I think the problems are with what data, people want us to use over the internet etc. Credit cards that can be waved infront of a scanner mean that people will be able to more easily clone your cards just by walking past with a scanner at pocket height. Imagine walking down a busy London street or a tube station at rush hour! You can make single payments up to £9.99 without entering a pin and make a total 5 payments totalling no more than £49.99 before a pin is needed.
The other one is the DNA Biometrics that the government want us to all have to replace the good old fashioned picture. They just don't understand the technology and imo are being sold a complete pup by a load of greedy techies. It will imo make stealing someones identity even easier by making people ignore the thing that most criminals can't fake easily i.e. what we look like and what we carry in our mind. Anyone can grab your DNA as we all watch many times on programs such as CSI where they pick up hair folicles, mouth swabs, blood and even skin cells.
Previously people could fake who they were just by walking into a bar and saying my names John Wayne, unless someone knew what John Wayne really looked like most people are just going to believe them. Now you can walk into the bar, say your John Wayne and tell them you've got proof and whip out your cloned credit card, mobile phone and his biometric passport.
Most of the people dealing with this won't even know what DNA is, let alone what it means. They'll just know that they've been told that it's "totally safe" as identification and believe that the person is John Wayne. The other thing is if you walk in somewhere and can't provide the ID card etc to prove your John Wayne, say a US hospital, then you aren't going to receive treatment even if your the real deal. That's more scary than someone stealing your identity.
A nice little computer glitche in the program storing and serving this biometric data mistakenly states that no DNA in Nelly's name exists. You walk into a bank and try and take out your money and your gone, or it gets swapped by human error and on your identity you get the DNA of someone on the sex register. Good luck with speaking to someone to get that sorted out, they'll think your the lowest of the low to start with.
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I think the problems are with what data, people want us to use over the internet etc. Credit cards that can be waved infront of a scanner mean that people will be able to more easily clone your cards just by walking past with a scanner at pocket height. Imagine walking down a busy London street or a tube station at rush hour! You can make single payments up to £9.99 without entering a pin and make a total 5 payments totalling no more than £49.99 before a pin is needed.
The other one is the DNA Biometrics that the government want us to all have to replace the good old fashioned picture. They just don't understand the technology and imo are being sold a complete pup by a load of greedy techies. It will imo make stealing someones identity even easier by making people ignore the thing that most criminals can't fake easily i.e. what we look like and what we carry in our mind. Anyone can grab your DNA as we all watch many times on programs such as CSI where they pick up hair folicles, mouth swabs, blood and even skin cells.
Previously people could fake who they were just by walking into a bar and saying my names John Wayne, unless someone knew what John Wayne really looked like most people are just going to believe them. Now you can walk into the bar, say your John Wayne and tell them you've got proof and whip out your cloned credit card, mobile phone and his biometric passport.
Most of the people dealing with this won't even know what DNA is, let alone what it means. They'll just know that they've been told that it's "totally safe" as identification and believe that the person is John Wayne. The other thing is if you walk in somewhere and can't provide the ID card etc to prove your John Wayne, say a US hospital, then you aren't going to receive treatment even if your the real deal. That's more scary than someone stealing your identity.
A nice little computer glitche in the program storing and serving this biometric data mistakenly states that no DNA in Nelly's name exists. You walk into a bank and try and take out your money and your gone, or it gets swapped by human error and on your identity you get the DNA of someone on the sex register. Good luck with speaking to someone to get that sorted out, they'll think your the lowest of the low to start with.
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