Black Hat Briefings, Usa 2007 [audio] Presentations From The Security Conference.

Black Hat DC 2007 was supposed to be the venue for "RFID For Beginners", a talk on the basic mechanisms of operation used by RFID tags. Legal pressure forced the talk to be curtailed, with only 25% of the material being presented. The remainder was replaced with a Panel debate involving IOActive, US-CERT, ACLU, Blackhat, and Grand Idea Studio. After spending far too much time and money dealing with lawyers and consulting with some strategic allies, IOActive has made some relatively minor tweaks to the original presentation, which will be presented as the first part of this talk. The second part of the talk introduces Cloner 2.0. The first Cloner was designed to be as simplistic as possible, and succeeded at the cost of read range, flexibility, and overall sophistication. Cloner 2.0 aims to address these concerns with a significantly enhanced read range, a "passive" mode to sniff the exchange between tags and legitimate readers, multi-tag storage capability, multiple RF frontends and an enhanced software ba