Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Discovery Mythbusters Getting Shut Down By Lawyers from Mastercard, Visa, American Express And Everybody In Credit Card Industry

Someone is asking for doing more on the subject of RFID in Mythbusters during a conference, but Adam Savage (one of the Mythbusters producers) laugh and said that it is not going to be happen. "I am not sure how much I am allowed to tell, but I will tell you what I know..." According to Adam Savage, Mythbusters are going to have a episode exposes the security level of the RFID in credit cards. They want to make a show and test out how easily the RFID can be hacked (we know that RFID can be easily hacked, although it might not a common knowledge). Unsurprisingly, they are called to stop on the show by all the lawyers from credit cards companies. "Discovery is a big corp. having its big revenue from advertisements, so we have to back down." However, it does somehow show us how 'secure' the RFID credit cards actually are from those credit card companies' reaction.

Watch the video.

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